Genesis 8:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 5:24 : 24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times, 21 Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants. 22 As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants. 23 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation. 25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me, 26 Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
  • Jas 5:7 : 7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
  • Jer 31:35 : 35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Ps 74:16-17 : 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun. 17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.
  • Song 2:11-12 : 11 For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 12 The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;
  • Isa 54:8-9 : 8 In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause. 9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.
  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.
  • Exod 34:21 : 21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

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    14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

    15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

  • Jer 33:25
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    25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,

  • Jer 33:20
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    20 The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

  • Eccl 1:4-5
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    4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

    5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Gen 2:4-5
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    4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

    5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

  • Isa 55:10
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    10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

  • Gen 1:17-18
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    17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

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  • Gen 8:2-3
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    2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

    3 And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

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    6 In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

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    17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

  • Jer 5:24
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    24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

  • Gen 8:21
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    21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

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    8 The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

  • Job 14:12
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    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Jer 31:35-36
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    35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

    36 If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.

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    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

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    8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

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    6 You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.

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    23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

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    1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

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    22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.

  • Mark 4:27-28
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    27 And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

    28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • Matt 24:35
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    35 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

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    22 And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

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    9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

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    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

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    8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

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    10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

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    31 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

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    6 For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

  • Lev 25:20
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    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

  • Exod 34:21
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    21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

  • Zech 8:12
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    12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

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    8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.