Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”

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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

18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, 1 and you will eat the plants of the field. 1

20The man called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:5Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead.”

Job 10:9Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; 1 will you bring me into dust again? 1

Job 19:26after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed, 1 then in my flesh I will see God. 1

Job 34:15then all flesh would perish together; 1 mankind would return to dust again. 1

Psalms 22:29All the prosperous people of the earth will feast and will worship; 1 all those who are descending into the dust will bow before him, 1 those who cannot preserve their own lives. 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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