“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.””
Genesis 3:19
BSBGo deeper on this verse (3)
- The Fall of Man: The First Promise God Made in the Ruins (Genesis 3)
- Did God Really Say? How the Serpent Bent One Sentence in Genesis 3
Connection with man formed from dust
Dust here is aphar (H6083), loose dry ground, the stuff a sandal kicks up on a path. It is the dust God formed the man from in Genesis 2:7. Whatever dignity a person has comes from the hands that worked that dust, and from what God put inside it.
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