Genesis 8:15-22

15Then God spoke to Noah,

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

17Bring 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.”

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

19Every animal, crawling creature, and bird—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ship, one kind after another.

20Noah built an altar to the Lord. On it he made a burnt offering of each type of clean  animal and clean bird.

21The 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.

22As long as the earth exists, planting and harvesting, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never stop.”