Genesis 8:13–22

¹³ In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. ¹⁴ By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry. ¹⁵ Then God said to Noah, ¹⁶ “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. ¹⁷ Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.” ¹⁸ So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. ¹⁹ Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind. ²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. ²² As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”