17. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18. So Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went out.
19. Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
20. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21. The Lord smelled a soothing aroma; and the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again 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 nightwill not cease.”