Genesis 8:22 - The Scriptures 1998

²² as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² 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

²² While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² 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

²² 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

²² All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease."

Genesis 8:22 Cross References

Genesis 45:6

“For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you work, but on the seventh day you rest – in ploughing time and in harvest you rest.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus said יהוה, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar – יהוה  of hosts is His Name:

Jeremiah 5:24

‘And they do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear יהוה  our Elohim, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”

James 5:7

So, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Master. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.