¹⁵ Then God said to Noah, ¹⁶ “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.^{(A) 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—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”^(B)

¹⁸ So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.^{(C) 19} All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the Lord^(D) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean^(E) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings^(F) on it.

²⁴ “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance^(A) for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land^(B) that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. ²⁶ And when your children^(C) ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover^(D) sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’”^(E) Then the people bowed down and worshiped.^(F)