Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
20And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
Cross References
Genesis 5:5So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
Psalms 22:29All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
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 →