19 You will eat bread[a] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,(A)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

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  1. 3:19 Or food

19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.(A)

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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