17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and ^abe fruitful and multiply on the earth.”  ‡

18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

20 Then Noah built an ^aaltar to the Lord, and took of ^bevery clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered ^cburnt offerings on the altar.  ‡

21 And the Lord smelled ^aa soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again ^bcurse the ground for man’s sake, although the ^cimagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^dnor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. ‡

22 “While the earth ^aremains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And ^bday and night
Shall not cease.” ‡