Genesis 8:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.””
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
King James Version · Public Domain“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 8:22 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
- Exodus 34:21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
- Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Song of Solomon 2:11For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
- Isaiah 54:8In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- Jeremiah 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
- Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Jeremiah 33:25This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
- James 5:7Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
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