As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
Parallel translations
- WEB While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- KJV While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- BSB As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- NKJV “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”
- NASB “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
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Quick answer
God promises that as long as the earth remains, the cycles of seasons, day and night will not cease. He pledges stable, dependable order to creation.
Overview
This gracious promise assures the ongoing rhythms of nature on which all life depends. It expresses God's faithfulness in upholding the created order despite human sin. The dependable seasons stand as a daily testimony to the patient mercy of God, who sustains the world and provides for all.
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Cross-references · 9
- Jas 5:7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
- Ps 74:16–17The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
- Jer 5:24Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
- Jer 31:35Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
- Song 2:11–12For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
- Jer 33:20–26“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- Exod 34:21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
- Isa 54:8–9In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
- Gen 45:6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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