Genesis 8:22
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| Overview - Genesis 8 | |
| 1 | God remembers Noah, and assuages the waters. |
| 4 | The ark rests on Ararat. |
| 6 | Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove. |
| 13 | Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark. |
| 20 | He builds an altar, and offers sacrifice, which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more. |
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Genesis 8:22 (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.
- While the earth remaineth
- Hebrew as yet all the days of the
- earth.
- Isaiah 54:8
- seed-time
- Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man. 45:6 Exodus 34:21 ; Psalms 74:16 Psalms 74:17 ; Song of Solomon 2:11 Song of Solomon 2:12 ; Isaiah 54:9 ; Jeremiah 5:24 ; James 5:7
- day
- Jeremiah 31:35 ; 33:20-26