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By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
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A Life of Toil, a Return to Dust
Commentators explain that the sentence "in the sweat of thy face" extends beyond farming to all human labor, which is now marked by struggle and weariness as a direct consequence of the fall. This life of toil culminates in physical death—a return to the dust from which humanity was made. Scholars like John Gill and Charles Ellicott see this as a constant reminder of our frailty, as the gift of unending life was withdrawn and the body was left to its natural, mortal course.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (= τερεῖν ?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein …
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
Baptist
For out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mot…
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16th Century
Protestant
In the sweat of your face. Some indeed translate it ‘labor;’ the translation, however, is forced. But by “sweat” is understood hard labor,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread Or "of your nose" F6 , sweat appearing first and chiefly on…
The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow and of subjection—proper punishments for that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the…
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