Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”

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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 thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth.

20And Adam called the name of his wife, ‘Eve,’ because she was the mother of all the living.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5And all the time that passed while Adam lived was nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.

Genesis 23:4“I am a newcomer and a sojourner among you. Give me the right of a sepulcher among you, so that I may bury my dead.”

Job 10:9Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.

Job 19:26And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

Job 34:15All flesh will fail together, and man will return to ashes.

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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