14. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah,
16. “Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives.
17. Bring out every animal that’s with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth.”
18. So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19. Every animal, crawling creature, and bird—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ship, one kind after another.
20. Noah built an altar to the Lord. On it he made a burnt offering of each type of clean animal and clean bird.
21. The Lord smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.
22. As long as the earth exists,planting and harvesting,cold and heat,summer and winter,day and nightwill never stop.”