Genesis 3:19
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19 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.(A)
Genesis 18:27
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27 Abraham spoke up again: “See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am only dust and ashes!(A)
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Tobit 8:6
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6 You made Adam, and you made his wife Eve
to be his helper and support;
and from these two the human race has come.
You said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone;
let us make him a helper like himself.’(A)
Job 34:15
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15 All flesh would perish together,
and mortals return to dust.(A)
Psalm 103:14
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14 For he knows how we are formed,
remembers that we are dust.(A)
Psalm 104:29
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29 [a]When you hide your face, they panic.
Take away their breath, they perish
and return to the dust.(A)
Footnotes
- 104:29–30 On one level, the spirit (or wind) of God is the fall and winter rains that provide food for all creatures. On another, it is the breath (or spirit) of God that makes beings live.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
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20 (A)Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the life breath returns to God who gave it.[a](A)
Wisdom 7:1
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Chapter 7
Solomon Is Like All Others
1 I too am a mortal, the same as all the rest,(A)
and a descendant of the first one formed of earth.[a]
And in my mother’s womb I was molded into flesh
Ben Sira 33:10
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10 Likewise, all people are of clay,
and from earth humankind was formed;(A)
1 Corinthians 15:45
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45 So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam,[a] became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.(A)
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- 15:45 The analogy of the first man, Adam, is introduced by a citation from Gn 2:7. Paul alters the text slightly, adding the adjective first, and translating the Hebrew ’ādām twice, so as to give it its value both as a common noun (man) and as a proper name (Adam). 1 Cor 15:45b then specifies similarities and differences between the two Adams. The last Adam, Christ (cf. 1 Cor 15:21–22) has become a…spirit (pneuma), a life-principle transcendent with respect to the natural soul (psychē) of the first Adam (on the terminology here, cf. note on 1 Cor 3:1). Further, he is not just alive, but life-giving, a source of life for others.
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