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Ecclesiastes 12:7

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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Then shall the dust {H6083} return {H7725} to the earth {H776} as it was: and the spirit {H7307} shall return {H7725} unto God {H430} who gave {H5414} it.

the dust returns to earth, as it was, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it!

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

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Cross-References

  • Daniel 12:2 (21 votes)

    And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:20 (17 votes)

    All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:21 (17 votes)

    Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

  • Psalms 146:4 (17 votes)

    His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Genesis 3:19 (13 votes)

    In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Zechariah 12:1 (13 votes)

    ¶ The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

  • Genesis 2:7 (12 votes)

    And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.