¹⁸So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. ¹⁹Every animal, everything that crawls on the earth, and every bird went out of the boat by families.

²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God. ²¹The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

²²“As long as the earth continues,

planting and harvest,

cold and hot,

summer and winter,

day and night

will not stop.”

The New Beginning

9Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.

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