8:20 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. ¹  8:21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma ²  and said ³  to himself, ⁴  “I will never again curse ⁵  the ground because of humankind, even though ⁶  the inclination of their minds ⁷  is evil from childhood on. ⁸  I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

8:22 “While the earth continues to exist, ⁹ 

planting time ¹⁰  and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

and day and night will not cease.”