Genesis 8:22
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22 As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night
shall not cease.”(A)
Psalm 147:8
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8 He covers the heavens with clouds,
prepares rain for the earth,
makes grass grow on the hills.(A)
Joel 2:23
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23 O children of Zion, be glad,
and rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given the early rain[a] for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the later rain, as before.(A)
Footnotes
- 2.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Matthew 5:45
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45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.(A)
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