Genesis 8:15-22

15Then God spoke to Noah,

16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you — birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth — and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

18So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out.

19All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures — everything that moves on the earth — came out of the ark by their families.

20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”