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Read Full Chapter (Genesis 8) Genesis 8:21 KJV
"And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 21
Genesis 8:21 in Context (Verses 18–22 KJV)
18
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.*
20
¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.**
22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.*