16. Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you.
17. Bring forth every living thing that is with you of all flesh–birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground–that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
18. And Noah went forth, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him [after being in the ark one year and ten days].
19. Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird–and whatever moves on the land–went forth by families out of the ark.
20. And Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean [four-footed] animal and of every clean fowl or bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21. When the Lord smelled the pleasing odor [a scent of satisfaction to His heart], the Lord said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination (the strong desire) of man's heart is evil and wicked from his youth; neither will I ever again smite and destroy every living thing, as I have done.
22. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.