Genesis 8:22
Good News Translation
As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."

New Revised Standard Version
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Contemporary English Version
As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat; winter and summer, day and night.

New American Bible
All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

While the earth remaineth.

Isaiah 54:8 In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from thee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the Lord thy Redeemer.

seed-time.

Genesis 45:6 For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

Exodus 34:21 Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.

Psalm 74:16,17 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun. . . .

Songs 2:11,12 For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. . . .

Isaiah 54:9 This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee.

Jeremiah 5:24 And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

day.

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 33:20-26 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season: . . .

Context
Noah Builds an Altar
21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done. 22All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.
Cross References
Psalm 74:17
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

Jeremiah 5:24
And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

Jeremiah 33:20
Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

Jeremiah 33:25
Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:

Genesis 8:21
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