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 the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

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

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.

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

For dust

And Jehovah 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 to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

And

I am a stranger and a visitor with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,

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

all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws;

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of departed spirits.

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

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

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

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man.

General references

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

all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

Man goes out to 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 humbled by it.