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 profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For dust

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

And

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

General references

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

Man goes forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening.

I have seen the task, which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied in it.