Genesis 3:19
19By the sweat of your faceyou shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
afor you are dust,
and bto dust you shall return.”
Genesis 15:15
15As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; cyou shall be buried in a good old age.Genesis 25:7-8
7These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years. 8Abraham dbreathed his last and edied in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.Genesis 25:17
17(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He fbreathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)Genesis 27:1-2
Isaac Blesses Jacob
1When Isaac was old and ghis eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.” 2He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.Genesis 49:33
33When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and hwas gathered to his people.Job 5:26
26You shall come to your grave in iripe old age,like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
5they are afraid also of what is high, and jterrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, ▼▼Or is a burden
and desire fails, because man is going to his leternal mhome, and the nmourners go about the streets— 6before the silver cord is snapped, or othe golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is pshattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7and qthe dust returns to the earth as it was, and rthe spirit returns to God swho gave it.
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