Parallel Verses
Amplified
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
New American Standard Bible
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And
And
Shall not cease.”
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.
Holman Bible
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.”
International Standard Version
"Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease."
A Conservative Version
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
American Standard Version
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Bible in Basic English
While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
Darby Translation
Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Julia Smith Translation
Yet all the days of the earth, seed and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
King James 2000
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{As long as the earth endures}, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.
Modern King James verseion
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Neither shall sowing time and harvest, cold, and heat, summer and winter, day and night cease, as long as the earth endureth."
NET Bible
"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
New Heart English Bible
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
The Emphasized Bible
During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Webster
While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
World English Bible
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Youngs Literal Translation
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.'
Themes
Agriculture » Operations in » Harvest
Agriculture » Seedtime and harvest promised
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Days » Succession of, secured by covenant
the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Promised
Gifts from God » Temporal » Rain and fruitful seasons
Harvest » Promises of plentiful
Harvest » To continue without intermission
Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
Seed » Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant
Seed » Sowing of » Time for, called seed-time
Spring » Season of, promised annual return of
Summer » Yearly return of, secured by covenant
Summer » Season of, promised while the earth remains
Winter » Yearly return of, secured by covenant
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 8:22
Images Genesis 8:22
Prayers for Genesis 8:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant With Noah
21
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma [a soothing, satisfying scent] and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intent (strong inclination, desire) of man’s heart is wicked from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
22
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:24
‘They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear and worship the Lord our God [with profound awe and reverence],
Who gives rain in its season,
Both the autumn and the spring rain,
Who keeps for us
The appointed weeks of the harvest.”
Genesis 45:6
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five more years in which there will be no plowing and harvesting.
Exodus 34:21
“You shall work for six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; [even] in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].
Psalm 74:16-17
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.
Song of Songs 2:11-12
‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
Isaiah 54:8-9
“In an outburst of wrath
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 31:35
Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for light by day
And the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night,
Who stirs up the sea’s roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar;
The Lord of hosts is His name:
Jeremiah 33:20-26
“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not take place at their appointed times,
James 5:7
So wait patiently, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits [expectantly] for the precious harvest from the land, being patient about it, until it receives the early and late rains.