Lamentations 4:9NET Bible
Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
Genesis 3:17
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:24
When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.
Genesis 5:5
The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.