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

20Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done. “While the earth continues to exist, planting time 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 burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the Lord.
• Genesis 45:6For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
• Exodus 34:21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.
• Psalms 74:16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
• Isaiah 54:9“As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.
• Jeremiah 5:24They do not say to themselves, “Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”
• James 5:7So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.
• Jeremiah 31:35The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.
• Jeremiah 33:20“I, Lord, make the following promise: ‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

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