Genesis 8:22

Genesis 8:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• New International Version (NIV)“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
• New King James Version (NKJV)“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”

Context of Genesis 8:22

20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Genesis 8:22 word by word

עֹ֖ד כָּל־יְמֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ זֶ֡רַע וְ֠קָצִיר וְקֹ֨ר וָחֹ֜ם וְקַ֧יִץ וָחֹ֛רֶף וְי֥וֹם וָלַ֖יְלָה לֹ֥א יִשְׁבֹּֽתוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• While the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• remainethיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• seedtimeזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seedH2233
• and harvestקָצִירqâtsîyr · harvestH7105
• and coldקֹרqôr · coldH7120
• and heatחֹםchôm · heatH2527
• and summerקַ֫יִץqayits · summerH7019
• and winterחֹ֫רֶףchôreph · autumnH2779
• and nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• shall not ceaseשָׁבַתshâbath · to ceaseH7673

Cross-references for Genesis 8:22

• Isaiah 54:8In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting love,” says the Lord your Redeemer.
• Genesis 45:6For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
• Exodus 34:21“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.
• Psalms 74:16The day is yours, also the night; you established the moon and the sun.
• Isaiah 54:9“For this is like the days of Noah to me: when I swore that the water of Noah would never flood the earth again, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
• Jeremiah 5:24They have not said to themselves, ‘Let’s fear the Lord our God, who gives the seasonal rains, both autumn and spring, who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
• James 5:7Therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.
• Jeremiah 31:35“This is what the Lord says: The one who gives the sun for light by day, the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar — the Lord of Armies is his name:
• Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,

Commentaries on Genesis 8:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, etc. - There is something very expressive in the original, הארץ ימי כל עד od col yemey haarets, until all the Days of the earth; for God does not reckon its duration by centuries, and the words themselves afford a strong presumption that the earth shall not have an endless duration. Seed-time and harvest - It is very probable that the seasons, which were distinctly marked immediately after the deluge, are…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-22Verses 15-22 - XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated 19. משׁפחה mı̂shpāchah “kind, clan, family.” שׁפחה shı̂pchâh “maid-servant; related: spread.” 20. מזבח mı̂zbēach “altar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.” 21. עלה 'olâh “whole burnt-offering.” That which goes up. “Step; related: go up.” Genesis 8:15-19 The command to leave the ark is given and obeyed. As Noah did not enter, so neither does he leave the ark, without divine direction. “The fowl, the cattle…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-22Verses 20-22 Noah was now gone out into a desolate world, where, one might have thought, his first care would have been to build a house for himself, but he begins with an alter for God. He begins well, that begins with God. Though Noah's stock of cattle was small, and that saved at great care and pains, yet he did not grudge to serve God out of it. Serving God with our little is the way to make it more; we must never think that is wasted with which God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22God’s promise to sustain the rhythm of the seasons reaffirmed the created order (1:14; see also Jeremiah 33:20; Zechariah 14:7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. While the earth remaineth--The consummation, as intimated in 2Pe 3:7, does not frustrate a promise which held good only during the continuance of that system. There will be no flood between this and that day, when the earth therein shall be burnt up [Chalmers].Read the comment

Topics related to Genesis 8:22

• Agriculture
• Blessing
• Covenant
• Gifts from God
• Harvest
• Noah
• Seasons
• Spring
• Summer
• Winter

In the dictionaries

• Day and Night
• Clean
• Covering
• Deluge
• Earth
• Flood
• Noah
• Pull
• Remember
• Sake

Commentaries on Genesis 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings