Parallel Bible results for "Genesis 3:19-24"

Genesis 3:19-24

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19 sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20 The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
21 God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 God said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never - this cannot happen!"
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23 So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they'd been made.
23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24 He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.
24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
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