Psalm 90:3
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- 90.3 Heb humankind
Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”(A)
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)
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- 12.7 Or the spirit
Psalm 104:29
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29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.(A)
Job 34:14-15
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14 If he should take back his spirit[a] to himself
and gather to himself his breath,(A)
15 all flesh would perish together,
and all mortals return to dust.(B)
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- 34.14 Heb his heart his spirit
Psalm 146:4
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4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
on that very day their plans perish.(A)
Job 12:10
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10 In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of every human being.(A)
Numbers 14:35
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35 I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”(A)
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Genesis 6:6-7
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6 And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.(A) 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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