For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without ploughing or harvesting.
Genesis 8:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.’ Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. American Standard Version (1901) While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Common English Bible As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and hot, summer and autumn, day and night will not cease. Catholic Public Domain Version All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease. |
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without ploughing or harvesting.
‘You are to labour six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during ploughing and harvesting times.
‘This is what the Lord says: The one who gives the sun for light by day, the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar – the Lord of Armies is his name:
They have not said to themselves, “Let’s fear the Lord our God, who gives the seasonal rains, both autumn and spring, who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.”
Therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.