Genesis 3:19
Good News Translation
You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

New Revised Standard Version
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Contemporary English Version
You will sweat all your life to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."

New American Bible
By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

In.

Ecclesiastes 1:3,13 What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun? . . .

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

till.

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Psalm 90:3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Psalm 104:29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Ecclesiastes 5:15 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

for dust.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

and.

Genesis 23:4 I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

Job 17:13-16 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. . . .

Job 19:26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Job 21:26 And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Psalm 22:15,29 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. . . .

Psalm 104:29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Proverbs 21:16 A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

Romans 5:12-21 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:21,22 For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead. . . .

Context
The Punishment of Mankind
18Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth. 19In 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.20And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.…
Cross References
Romans 5:12
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

Romans 5:17
For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:18
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Job 4:19
How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Psalm 90:3
Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Psalm 103:14
For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

Psalm 104:23
Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

Psalm 104:29
But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Psalm 127:2
It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,

Ecclesiastes 3:20
And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Genesis 3:18
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