Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

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

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Cross References

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

Genesis 23:4I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

Job 10:9Remember that thou hast made me as clay, 1 And thou dost turn me again to earth. 1

Job 19:26And to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: 1 For these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; 1

Job 34:15All flesh would die together, 1 And every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed. 1

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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