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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.

KJV

Cunctis diebus terræ, sementis et messis, frigus et æstus, æstas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.

Vulgate

πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς γῆς σπέρμα καὶ θερισμός, ψῦχος καὶ καῦμα, θέρος καὶ ἔαρ ἡμέραν καὶ νύκτα οὐ καταπαύσουσιν.

LXX

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

ASV

עֹ֖ד כָּל יְמֵ֣י הָ/אָ֑רֶץ זֶ֡רַע וְ֠/קָצִיר וְ/קֹ֨ר וָ/חֹ֜ם וְ/קַ֧יִץ וָ/חֹ֛רֶף וְ/י֥וֹם וָ/לַ֖יְלָה לֹ֥א יִשְׁבֹּֽתוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
הִשְׁבַּתִּי֙
hshbty
verb · 71×
וֹ
v
noun · 226×
חֹ֖רֶף
chrp
noun · 7×
חֹ֣ם
chm
verb · 15×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ע֖וֹד
'vd
adverb · 485×
קְצִיר
qtsyr
noun · 53×
קַ֖יִץ
qyts
noun · 20×
קֹ֨ר
qr
noun · 1×

Covenant

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

And God remembered Noah. To say that God remembered Noah does not mean he had forgotten him, but that God now manifested his care by making the waters to recede. Noah's offering upon leaving the ark shows that true piety begins with gratitude. God's promise not to curse the ground again for man's sake is a covenant of common grace toward all creatures.

Cross-references

  • Exod 34:21 — Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
  • Gen 1:5 — And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
  • Gen 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
  • Gen 45:6 — For 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.
  • Isa 54:8 — In 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.
  • Jas 5:7 — Be 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 ra
  • Jer 5:24 — Neither 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.
  • Jer 5:24 — Neither 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.
  • Jer 31:35 — Thus 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 host
  • Jer 33:20 — Thus 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;
  • Jer 33:20 — Thus 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;
  • Jer 33:25 — Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
  • Job 26:10 — He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
  • Job 38:33 — Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
  • Ps 19:2 — Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
  • Ps 24:2 — For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
  • Ps 65:8 — They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
  • Ps 74:16 — The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 74:17 — Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
  • Ps 119:91 — They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
  • Song 2:11 — For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;