Genesis 8:18–9:1

¹⁸So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out. ¹⁹All wildlife, all livestock, every bird, and every creature that crawls on the earth came out of the ark by their groups.

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, ^mHe said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground ⁿbecause of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. ^oAnd I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. ^p

²²As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,

summer and winter, and day and night

will not cease.” ^q

God’s Covenant with Noah

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