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Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”

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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

21The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:21You shall work for six days, but you shall rest on the seventh day. Even during the times of sowing and harvest you shall rest.

Song of Solomon 2:11Winter has finished; the rains are over and gone.

Jeremiah 5:24You didn't think to say, “We should appreciate the Lord our God, who sends the autumn and spring rains at the right time, who makes sure we can have a harvest every year.”

Jeremiah 33:20This is what the Lord says: If you were able to break my agreement with the day and with the night, so that they wouldn't come at the right time,

James 5:7Friends, be patient as you wait for the Lord's return. Think of the farmer waiting patiently for the earth's precious harvest as it grows with the early and later rains.

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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