20. NOAH built an altar to The LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21. The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. the LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

22. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."

9. "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

10. and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

11. I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."

12. God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13. I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

14. When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

15. and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16. The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

17. God said to NOAH, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."