Genesis 3:19

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Summary

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

In

For dust

Genesis 2:7

Genesis 18:27

And

General references

Bible References

In

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

For dust

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

And

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

And ... without my flesh I will see God;

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

General references

Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.