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Gen 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

While the earth remaineth		Heb. as yet all the days of the earth. Isa 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. Gen 45:6; Exd 34:21; Psa 74:16,17; Sgs 2:11,12; Isa 54:9; Jer 5:24; Jam 5:7
day		Jer 31:35; Jer 33:20-26

Correlating Passages

While the earth remaineth

Isa 54:8

In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

seed-time

	Gen 45:6	For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest.
	Exd 34:21	Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
	Psa 74:16	The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
	Psa 74:17	Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
	Sgs 2:11	For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;
	Sgs 2:12	The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
	Isa 54:9	For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
	Jer 5:24	Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
	Jam 5:7	Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

day

	Jer 31:35	Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:
	Jer 33:20	Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
	Jer 33:21	[Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
	Jer 33:22	As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
	Jer 33:23	Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
	Jer 33:24	Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
	Jer 33:25	Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
	Jer 33:26	Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 8:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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