Genesis 8:15-22 - The Lord's Promise

¹⁵ God said to Noah: ¹⁶ Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. ¹⁷ Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you, the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground. They will multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it. ¹⁸ Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. ¹⁹ All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds, everything that moves on the earth came out of the ark, one kind after another.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. ²¹ Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

²² As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.