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 advantage does man have in all his work

Which he does under the sun?

He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as 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 give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

For dust

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

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

And

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

“Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

“Together they lie down in the dust,
And worms cover them.

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.

A man who wanders from the way of understanding
Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the

spirit will return to God who gave it.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

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

General references

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

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

Man goes forth to his work
And to his labor until evening.

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.