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 Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every animal of the field. You shall go upon your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be counted.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.

And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, speaking with deceit because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth. And it became lice in man and in beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with sores upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

Then Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not.

And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin.

And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city in an unclean place.

And any man of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who hunts game, beast or fowl, that may be eaten, he shall even pour out its blood and cover it with dust.

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as small as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the torrent that descended out of the mountain.

Jehovah shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come down from the heavens on you until you are destroyed.

Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Jehovah until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.

so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

And Gideon said to God, Let not Your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once. I pray You, let me test but this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

He raises up the poor out of the dust; He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among princes; yea, He causes them to inherit a throne of honor; for to Jehovah are the pillars of the earth; and He sets the habitable world on them.

And David and his men went by the highway. And Shimei went along on the hillside over across from him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and threw dust.

Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them like the mire of the streets and spread them out.

And the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame concerning the name of Jehovah, and she came to test him with hard questions.

Since I exalted you out of the dust, and made you ruler over My people Israel, and since you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel to sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins,

And the fire of Jehovah fell and burned up the burnt sacrifice and the wood, and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

And Ben-hadad sent to him and said, May the gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.

For He had not left a people remaining to Jehoahaz, but only fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust at threshing-time.

And the altars which were on the top of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made, and the two courts of the house of Jehovah, the king beat them down, and broke them down from there. And he threw the dust of them into the torrent Kidron.

Now, O Jehovah God, Your promise to David my father has been fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that carried spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones. And she came in to Solomon and spoke with him of all that was in her heart.

And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence. And he cut down the images which were on high above them, and the Asherahs. And the carved images and the molten images he also broke in pieces and made dust from them, and scattered on the graves of the ones who had sacrificed to them.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not know him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe, and they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Heaven.

How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh.

And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?

Though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,

The waters wear away the stones; the outpouring of it washes the dust of the earth; and You cause the hope of man to perish.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin and thrust my horn in the dust.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our descent together is in the dust.

His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it lies down with him in the dust.

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

Then you shall lay up gold like dust, and among the rock of the torrents of Ophir.

my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay,

Its stones are the place of sapphires; and it has dust of gold.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,

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

when the dust is melted into hardness, and the clods cling fast together?

For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm in the dust,

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in darkness.

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

let the enemy persecute my soul and take it; yea, let him trample down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O Jehovah; listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, for it is not in lips of deceit.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets.

and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.

All the fat ones on the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him; and none can keep alive his own soul.

What profit is in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before Him; and His enemies shall lick the dust.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence; and their blood shall be precious in His sight.

and He also rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea;

You turn man to dust, and say, Return, sons of men.

For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust.

For He knows our form; He remembers that we are dust.

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

He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill,

DALETH: My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to Your Word.

You have trampled all those who go astray from Your Precepts; for their deceit is falsehood.

TZADDI: You are righteous, O Jehovah, and Your judgments are right.

before He had made the earth, or the fields or the highest part of the dust of the world.

The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

He who breathes truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to counselors of peace there is joy.

The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

He who hates pretends with his lips and stores up deceit within him.

He whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the congregation.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this also is vanity.

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.

Enter into the rock and hide in the dust for fear of Jehovah, and for the glory of His majesty.

So, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the Law of Jehovah of Hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.

And the fortress of the high fort of your walls He will lay low, bring to the ground, to the dust.

For He brings down those who dwell on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it to the dust.

Your dead ones shall live, together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

And you shall be brought down; you shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be like a spiritist, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

And the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yea, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.

And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust to brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.