Ground
The first human is made from the earth itself. Genesis 2:7 says “the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” After the fall the ground turns into the place of labour: “cursed is the ground for thy sake”, and Adam is sent out “to till the ground from whence he was taken.” Noah’s father speaks of toil “because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.” Dust is where people begin and where they end, and God is in both. Genesis 2 and 3 tell it first.
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Genesis
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Job
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?