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Ecclesiastes 12:7
New English Translation

7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was,
and the life’s breath[a] returns to God who gave it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:7 tn Or “spirit.” The likely referent is the life’s breath that originates with God. See Eccl 3:19, as well as Gen 2:7; 6:17; 7:22.
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