Genesis 8:22

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, 1 summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

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

In Context

21Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the intentions of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 34:21You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.

Song of Solomon 2:11Look, the winter is past; 1 the rain is over and gone. 1

Jeremiah 5:24For they do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear Yahweh our God, the one who brings the rain 1 —the early rain and the late rains—in their right time, keeping the fixed weeks of the harvest for us.” 1

Jeremiah 33:20“Yahweh says this: 'If you can break my covenant with day and night so that there will no longer be day or night at their proper times,

James 5:7So be patient, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See, the farmer awaits the valuable harvest from the ground. He is patiently waiting for it, until it receives the early and late 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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