Genesis 3:19

For the rest of your life you will have to work very hard to get your food, and you will get hot and sweaty. And when you die, someone will bury your body in the ground. I made you from the ground and so your body will turn back into the ground that I made you from.”

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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

18When you grow food plants there will always be lots of weeds and prickles growing there too.

20Adam's wife was the first woman, and so all the people in the world came from her. That is why Adam named her Eve. That name means that life came from her.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5Adam died when he was 930 years old.

Genesis 23:4Abraham said to them, “I am a stranger here, and my wife has died. Can I buy some land from you so that I can bury her body?”

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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