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 person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun?

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat.

For dust

when Yahweh God formed the man [of] dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I [am] dust and ashes.

And

"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.

If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.

all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

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

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.

Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust.

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.

Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

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

General references

And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan

all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.

Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening.

I have seen the busyness God gives to {humans} to preoccupy them.