Genesis 3 – Line 00075

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INTRO

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By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

RENDERING NOTES

“By the sweat of your face” (בְּזֵעַת אַפֶּיךָ) — construct phrase; evokes effortful labor, literal or symbolic.

“You shall eat bread” (תֹּאכַל לֶחֶם) — repetition of eating motif under new conditions (contrast with Eden).

“Until you return to the ground” (עַד שֻׁבְךָ אֶל־הָאֲדָמָה) — temporal clause tied to death and origin.

“For from it you were taken” (כִּי מִמֶּנָּה לֻקָּחְתָּ) — passive verb with clear origin reference.

“Dust you are, and to dust you shall return” (כִּי עָפָר אַתָּה וְאֶל־עָפָר תָּשׁוּב) — poetic parallelism; chiastic closure.

INSERTION / HELPER WORD TRACKING

“By,” “until,” “for,” and conjunctions included for readability and logical linkage.

No additional helper nouns or verbs added beyond syntactic smoothing.

CONTEXTUAL PLACEMENT

Culminates the divine consequence speech to the man.

Links labor (3:17–18) with mortality.

Echoes Genesis 2:7 — reversing origin moment with a return.

STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT NOTES

Final closure to the triplet consequence structure (3:14–19).

Uses sequential reasoning clauses (ki) to build toward thematic inevitability.

Pairs with 3:23–24 where the return to ground is enacted through exile.

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