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15 Then God said to Noah,
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Then God said to Noah,
16 "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
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“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."
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Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18 So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
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So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.
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All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then 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.
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
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The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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