Genesis 8:15-22

New King James Version

¹⁵ Then God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶ “Go out of the ark, ^(A)you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 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 ^(B)be 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.

God’s Covenant with Creation

²⁰ Then Noah built an ^(C)altar to the Lord, and took of ^(D)every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered ^(E)burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ And the Lord smelled ^(F)a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again ^(G)curse the ground for man’s sake, although the ^(H)imagination^[a] of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^(I)nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.