Genesis 8:18–9:1

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 ¹by their families from the ark.

²⁰Then Noah built ^aan altar to the Lord, and took of every ^bclean animal and of every clean bird and offered ^cburnt offerings on the altar.

²¹The Lord ^asmelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said ¹to Himself, “I will never again ^bcurse the ground on account of man, for ^cthe ²intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^dand I will never again ³destroy every living thing, as I have done.

²²“While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

And cold and heat,

And ^asummer and winter,

And ^bday and night

Shall not cease.”

Chapter 9

Covenant of the Rainbow

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “^aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.