Parallel Verses
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."
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.
Amplified
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
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.
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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Yowm
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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 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:24
Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
Exodus 34:21
"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Psalm 74:16-17
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the 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 overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you," says Yahweh your Redeemer.
Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
Jeremiah 33:20-26
Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.