¹⁸So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out. ¹⁹All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark by their families.

²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,ⁱ he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground^j because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward.^k And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.^l

²²As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,

summer and winter, and day and night

will not cease.”^a

GOD’S COVENANT WITH NOAH

9God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.^b

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Genesis 8:22: While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease…

Cross references

i Ex 29:18; Lv 1:9; Ezk 16:19; 20:41; 2Co 2:15; Eph 5:2; Php 4:18
j Gn 3:17; 5:29; 6:7; Is 54:9
k Gn 6:5; Ps 51:5; Jr 17:9; Rm 1:21; 3:23; Eph 2:1–3
l Gn 9:11,15
a Jr 33:20,25
b Gn 1:28; 8:17; 9:7; 35:11