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 benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."

For dust

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

Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

And

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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

Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --

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

General references

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

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied.