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 does a man gain for all his efforts
that he labors at under the sun?

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

For dust

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—

And

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,

Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet I will see God in my flesh.

But they both lie in the dust,
and worms cover them.

every living thing would perish together
and mankind would return to the dust.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.

The man who strays from the way of wisdom
will come to rest
in the assembly of the departed spirits.

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Many of those who sleep in the dust
of the earth will awake,
some to eternal life,
and some to shame and eternal contempt.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.

General references

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

every living thing would perish together
and mankind would return to the dust.

Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.

I have seen the task that God has given people to keep them occupied.