17. Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it."
18. And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.
19. Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark.
20. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar.
21. And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: "I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done.
22. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease."