Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said to himself, “Never again will I curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth. And never again will I destroy every living creature, as I have done.
In context
19Every wild animal, every creeping thing, and every bird — everything that moves on the earth — came out of the ark, one kind after another. 20Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and taking some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said to himself, “Never again will I curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth. And never again will I destroy every living creature, as I have done. 22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
