¹⁸Soⁿ Noah went out, with^o his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. ¹⁹Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, and everything that moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark. ²⁰And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself,^p “Never again will I curse^q the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy^r all life as I have done. ²²As long as the earth endures,^s seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.

God’s Covenant with Noah and Humankind

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

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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…

Footnotes

nOr “And”
oOr “and”
pLiterally “to his heart”
qLiterally “I will not add to curse again”
rLiterally “And I will not add again to destroy”
sLiterally “While all the days of the earth”