Psalms 90:3

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.

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

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

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

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

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

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.