Genesis 8:22
While ha'aretz remaineth, 1 zera (seedtime) and katzir (harvest), 1 and kor (cold) and chom (heat), 1 and kayitz (summer) and choref (winter), 1 and yom and lailah, shall not cease.
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Exodus 34:21Sheshet yamim thou shalt work, but on the yom hashevi'i thou shalt rest; in plowing and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Song of Solomon 2:11For, hinei, the winter is past, 1 the geshem (rain) is over and gone; 1
Jeremiah 5:24Neither say they in their lev: 1 Let us now fear Hashem Eloheinu, 1 that giveth geshem, both the yoreh (former rain, autumn rain) 1 and the malkosh (latter rain, spring rain) in season; 1 He secureth unto us shavu'ot chukkot katzir (the appointed weeks of the harvest). 1
Jeremiah 33:20Thus saith Hashem: If ye can break My Brit HaYom, and My Brit HaLailah, that there should not be yomam v'lailah (day and night) in their appointed times;
James 5:7Have savlanut (patience), therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, until the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Moshiach Adoneinu. Hinei, the ikar (farmer) awaits the precious p'ri haAdamah (fruit of the earth), having savlanut (patience) for it until it receives the Yoreh (first autumn rain) and the Malkosh (spring rain). + 5:7 Dt 11:14; Jer 5:24; Yoel 2:23
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 →