Ecclesiastes 12:7

and jthe dust returns to the earth as it was, and kthe spirit returns to God lwho gave it.

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

Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Job 34:14
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made.

Zechariah 12:1
The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Genesis 2:7
then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.


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