Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

Darby Translation

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

18and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

20And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5And all the days of Adam that he 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 sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

Job 19:26And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God;

Job 34:15All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.

Psalms 22:29All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

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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