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 hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

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

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable 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, which am but dust and ashes:

And

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

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

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

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

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

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

The man that wandereth 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.

Wherefore, 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 shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.