Genesis 3:19

by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return.”

Literal Standard Version

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 it brings forth thorn and bramble for you, and you have eaten the herb of the field;

20And the man calls his wife’s name Eve, for she has been mother of all living.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dies.

Genesis 23:4“A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.”

Job 10:9Please remember || That You have made me as clay, || And You bring me back to dust.

Job 19:26And after my skin has surrounded this [body], || Then from my flesh I see God—

Job 34:15All flesh expires together, || And man returns to dust.

Psalms 22:29And the fat ones of earth have eaten, || And they bow themselves, || All going down to dust bow before Him, || And he [who] has not revived his 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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