KJV King James Version
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
WEB World English Bible
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
ASV American Standard Version
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.’
Surrounding context — Genesis 8
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עֹ֖דH5750 · odstillכָּל־H3605 · kolallיְמֵ֣יH3117 · yomdayהָאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetזֶ֡רַעH2233 · ze.raseedוְ֠קָצִירH7105 · qa.tsirharvestוְקֹ֨רH7120 · qorcoldוָחֹ֜םH2527 · chomheatוְקַ֧יִץH7019 · qa.yitssummerוָחֹ֛רֶףH2779 · cho.rephautumnוְי֥וֹםH3117 · yomdayוָלַ֖יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotיִשְׁבֹּֽתוּ׃H7673 · sha.vatto cease
Cross-references
James 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.Psalm 74:16-17The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.Jeremiah 5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.Jeremiah 31:35Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:Song of Solomon 2:11-12For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;Jeremiah 33:20-26Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;Exodus 34:21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.Isaiah 54:8-9In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.Genesis 45:6For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest.
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