Genesis 8:22

All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

In Context

21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:21Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap.

Song of Solomon 2:11For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.

Jeremiah 5:24And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.

Jeremiah 33:20Thus saith the Lord: If my covenant with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

James 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:21-22

Noah's Sacrifice. ( b. c. 2348.) 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer… Read the whole commentary →

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