16. “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17. Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”
18. Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19. Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
20. Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21. And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
22. “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”