Holy Scripture

Genesis 3:19

A church father on this verse
“We say, therefore, that the body falls to the ground by death, as indeed facts themselves show, in accordance with the law of God. For to the body it was said, ("Till you return to the ground, for out of it were you taken; for) dust you are, and unto dust shall you return." That, therefore, which came from the ground…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Against Marcion Book V

Source: Septuagint

Original

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

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In context

17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

18Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

— Genesis 3:19 —

20And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.

21And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.

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