¹⁸So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.^d ¹⁹All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord^e and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean^f birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings^g on it. ²¹The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma^h and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the groundⁱ because of humans, even though^a every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.^j And never again will I destroy^k all living creatures,^l as I have done.

²²“As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,^m

cold and heat,

summer and winter,ⁿ

day and night

will never cease.”^o

God’s Covenant With Noah

9Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.^p

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

aOr humans, for

Cross references

d 1 Pe 3:20; 2 Pe 2:5
e Ge 12:7–8; 13:18; 22:9; 26:25; 33:20; 35:7; Ex 17:15; 24:4
fSee Ge 7:8
g Ge 22:2, 13; Ex 10:25; 20:24; 40:29; Lev 1:3; 4:29; 6:8–13; Nu 6:11; Jdg 6:26; 11:31; 1 Sa 20:29; Job 1:5; 42:8
h Ex 29:18, 25; Lev 1:9, 13; 2:9; 4:31; Nu 15:3, 7; 2 Co 2:15
iSee Ge 3:17
j Ge 6:5; Ps 51:5; Jer 17:9; Mt 15:19; Ro 1:21
k Jer 44:11
l Ge 9:11, 15; Isa 54:9
m Jos 3:15; Ps 67:6; Jer 5:24
n Ps 74:17; Zec 14:8
oSee Ge 1:14
pSee Ge 1:22