15. Then God said to Noah,
16. “Leave the boat. You, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives should go out now.
17. Bring every living animal out of the boat with you—all the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. These animals will make many more animals, and they will fill the earth again.”
18. So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19. All the animals, everything that crawls, and every bird left the boat. All the animals came out of the boat in family groups.
20. Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord. Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.
21. The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.
22. As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth.”