Add parallel Print Page Options

18 After Noah and his family had left the boat, 19 the living creatures left in groups of their own kind.

The Lord's Promise for the Earth

20 Noah built an altar where he could offer sacrifices to the Lord. Then he offered on the altar one of each kind of animal and bird that could be used for a sacrifice.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 8.20 animal … sacrifice: See the note at 7.2.

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.(A) 19 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(B) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean(C) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings(D) on it.

Read full chapter