Genesis 8:13-22

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah lifted the hatch, looked out, and saw the dry ground. On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry. Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and their wives. Release all the animals with you and set them free—birds, animals large and small—every living thing. And they will multiply and abound and flourish on the earth and in the sky.” So Noah and his family left the ark; and every animal large and small, every bird and crawling thing came out of the ark by families. Noah erected an altar dedicated to YAHWEH. Then he selected ritually clean animals and birds of every species and offered them as burnt sacrifices on the altar. And when YAHWEH smelled the sweet fragrance of Noah’s offerings, his heart was stirred, and he said, “Never again will I curse the earth because of people, even though the imagination of their hearts are evil from their childhood; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. I promise this: “As long as earth exists there will always be seasons of planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”