Genesis 3:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ by the sweat of your face you will eat bread— until you return to the fertile land, since from it you were taken; you are soil, to the soil you will return.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Genesis 3:19 Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 3:18

thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 5:5

Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 10:9

Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

Psalm 104:29

When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.

Psalm 90:3

Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, “Turn back, O children of men!”

Proverbs 21:16

A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.

Daniel 12:2

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,