What does the Bible say about dust?

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• Genesis 3:19

  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."

• Genesis 2:7

  Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

  And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

• Psalms 103:14

  For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

• Psalms 103:13-14

  [13] Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. [14] For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

• Ecclesiastes 3:20

  All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

• Luke 9:5

  As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

• Matthew 10:14

  Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

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