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.
