Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

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1. In the Book of Genesis, words that God spoke to Adam in casting him and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. In saying this, God reminded Adam that he had been made from “the dust of the ground” and confirmed that Adam and Eve had brought death upon themselves by disobeying him and eating the forbidden fruit. (See Fall of Man.)

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Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

"Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return ..." she was mentally repeating the words of the canticles.

From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney

Upon our first parents, for transgressing the law, he pronounced all the miseries of life, and uttered the closing sentence, "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return."

From Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation by John Bovee Dods

I told thee once, Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Henrietta Szold

"Dust thou art": quoted from Genesis 3:19, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Spraque Carhart