Genesis 8:22

New English Translation

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Cross References

Genesis 45:6

For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Exodus 34:21

“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

Jeremiah 31:35

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, “Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

James 5:7

So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.