19 (A)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(B)For dust you are,
And (C)to dust you shall return.”

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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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23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden (A)to till the ground from which he was taken.

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23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden(A) to work the ground(B) from which he had been taken.

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Then she bore again, this time his brother [a]Abel. Now (A)Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:2 Lit. Breath or Nothing

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.(A)

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.(B)

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11 (A)He who [a]tills his land will be satisfied with (B)bread,
But he who follows [b]frivolity (C)is devoid of [c]understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:11 works or cultivates
  2. Proverbs 12:11 Lit. vain things
  3. Proverbs 12:11 Lit. heart

11 Those who work their land will have abundant food,
    but those who chase fantasies have no sense.(A)

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24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and (A)in all its cities together, farmers and those going out with flocks.

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24 People will live(A) together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks.(B)

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