Genesis 3:19
You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
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In Context
18It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.
20Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to be the mother of all human beings.
Cross References
Genesis 5:5Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner, a stranger living among you,” he said. “Please let me buy a burial site so I can bury my dead wife.”
Job 10:9Remember that you shaped me like a piece of clay—are you now going to turn me back into dust?
Job 19:26Even though my skin is destroyed, in my body I shall see God.
Job 34:15all living things would immediately die and human beings would return to dust.
Psalms 22:29All who prosper come to feast and worship. Bow down before him, all those destined for the grave—for none can keep themselves 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 →