For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no ploughing and reaping.
Genesis 8:22 - New International Version (Anglicised) ‘As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no ploughing and reaping.
‘Six days you shall labour, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the ploughing season and harvest you must rest.
This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar – the Lord Almighty is his name:
They do not say to themselves, “Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”
Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.