Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

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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

18Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

20And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

Genesis 23:4I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

Job 10:9O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 19:26And ... without my flesh I will see God;

Job 34:15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Psalms 22:29\22:28\For the kingdom is the Lord's; he is the ruler among the nations.

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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