GENESIS 3:19

Greek: By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the earth, from which you were taken, because earth you are and to earth you shall return."

Old Latin: In the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread until you return to the earth from which you have been taken, for you are earth and unto earth you shall return."

Vulgate: In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return."

Peshitta: And by the sweat of your face you will eat bread.. until you return to the earth from which you were taken because you are dust and to dust you shall return."

Targums:

• Onkelos: By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you are returned to the earth from which you were created, for dust you are and to dust you shall return."

• Neophyti: "You will eat bread from the sweat from before your face until you return to the earth, because from it you were created; because you are dust and to dust you are to return. But from the dust you are to arise again to give an account and a reckoning of all that you have done."

• PS. Jonathan: "By the labor of your hand you shall eat food until you return to the dust from which you were created, because dust you are, and to dust you will return; but from the dust you are destined to arise to render an account and a reckoning of all you have done, on the day of great judgment."

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