For there has been two years of famine in the land, and there will be five more years yet with no plowing or harvesting.
Genesis 8:22 - Tree of Life Version While all the days of the land remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not 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 there has been two years of famine in the land, and there will be five more years yet with no plowing or harvesting.
“For six days you will work, but on the seventh day you will rest. During plowing time and harvest you must rest.
“Only if this fixed order departs from before Me” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “then also might Israel’s offspring cease from being a nation before Me—for all time.”
They do not say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Adonai Eloheinu, who gives rain in its season —fall rain and spring rain— who reserves for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it until it receives the early and late rain.