Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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 Context

18Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field.

20And the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Genesis 23:4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

Job 19:26And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,

Job 34:15all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

Psalms 22:29All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:18-20

Sentence Passed on Adam; Consequences of the Fall. ( b. c. 4004.) 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for… Read the whole commentary →

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