¹⁸So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. ¹⁹Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

God’s Covenant with Noah

²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And when the Lord smelled ^kthe pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again ^lcurse¹ the ground because of man, for ^mthe intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. ⁿNeither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. ²²^oWhile the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, ^pday and night, shall not cease.”

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

Read in Logos

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

Footnotes

1Or dishonor

Cross references

k Ex. 29:18, 25, 41; Lev. 1:9, 13, 17; See Ezek. 16:19; 20:41; 2 Cor. 2:15; Eph. 5:2; Phil. 4:18
lch. 3:17; 6:17
mch. 6:5; Ps. 58:3; Rom. 1:21; [Matt. 15:19]
nch. 9:11, 15; Isa. 54:9
o Jer. 5:24
p Jer. 33:20, 25
qch. 1:22, 28; 8:17