Genesis 3:19

The Scriptures 2009

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Aḇraham answered and said, “Look, please, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה,

Genesis 2:7

And יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of lives. And the man became a living being.

Genesis 23:4

I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial-site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.

Genesis 3:18

and the ground shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 5:5

So all the days that Aḏam 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 I return there. יהוה has given, and יהוה has taken away. Blessed be the Name of יהוה.”

Job 10:9

Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been struck off, then in my flesh I shall see Eloah,

Job 21:26

Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them.

Job 34:15

all flesh would expire together and man 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 like a moth?

Psalm 103:14

For He knows how we are made; He remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:23

Man goes out to his work, And to his labour, till evening.

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are alarmed; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust;

Psalm 127:2

In vain do you rise up early, To sit up late, to eat the bread of toil; So He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried like a potsherd, And My tongue is cleaving to My jaws; And to the dust of death You are appointing Me.

Psalm 22:29

All the fat ones of the earth Shall eat and bow themselves; All who go down to the dust bow before Him, Even he who did not keep alive his own life.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back to dust, And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Proverbs 21:16

A man who strays from the way of understanding, Rests in the assembly of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done under the heavens; this evil task Elohim has given to the sons of man, to be humbled by it.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain from all his labour in which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All are going to one place – all came from the dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he returns, to go as he came. And from his labour which goes into his hand he takes none whatsoever.

Daniel 12:2

and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth wake up, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches, everlasting abhorrence.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the earth, earthy; the second Man is the Master from heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands what is good, so that he has somewhat to share with those in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, for labouring night and day, in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the Good News of Elohim.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone does not wish to work, neither let him eat.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,