Genesis 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, sum…”

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Hereafter seede time and haruest, and colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.

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.

Young's 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.'

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.

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Cross references

“While the earth remaineth”

Isaiah 54:8

Isaiah 54:8 · BSB

In 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.

“seedtime”

James 5:7 Jeremiah 5:24 Exodus 34:21 Genesis 45:6 Psalm 74:16 Psalm 74:17

James 5:7 · BSB

Be 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.

Jeremiah 5:24 · BSB

They 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.’

Exodus 34:21 · BSB

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

Genesis 45:6 · BSB

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Psalm 74:16 · BSB

The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalm 74:17 · BSB

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

“day”

Jeremiah 31:35 Jeremiah 33:20–26

Jeremiah 31:35 · BSB

Thus 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 33:20–26 · BSB

“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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Read Genesis 8