Genesis 8:16–22

16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.b 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”c

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.d 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lorde and, taking some of all the clean animals and cleanf birds, he sacrificed burnt offeringsg on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aromah and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the groundi because of humans, even thougha every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.j And never again will I destroyk all living creatures,l as I have done.

22 “As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,m

cold and heat,

summer and winter,n

day and night

will never cease.”o

b	Ge 7:13
c	Ge 1:22
d	1 Pe 3:20 2 Pe 2:5
e	Ge 12:7–8 Ge 13:18 Ge 22:9 Ge 26:25 Ge 33:20 Ge 35:7 Ex 17:15 Ex 24:4
f	Ge 7:8
g	Ge 22:2 Ge 22:13 Ex 10:25 Ex 20:24 Ex 40:29 Le 1:3 Le 4:29 Le 6:8–13 Nu 6:11 Jdg 6:26 Jdg 11:31 1 Sa 20:29 Job 1:5 Job 42:8
h	Ex 29:18 Ex 29:25 Le 1:9 Le 1:13 Le 2:9 Le 4:31 Nu 15:3 Nu 15:7 2 Co 2:15
i	Ge 3:17
a	Or humans, for
j	Ge 6:5 Ps 51:5 Je 17:9 Mt 15:19 Ro 1:21
k	Je 44:11
l	Ge 9:11 Ge 9:15 Is 54:9
m	Jos 3:15 Ps 67:6 Je 5:24
n	Ps 74:17 Zec 14:8
o	Ge 1:14