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Genesis 8

Gen. 8:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
smelled
ruwach (Hebrew #7306)
properly, to blow, i.e. breathe; only (literally) to smell or (by implication, perceive (figuratively, to anticipate, enjoy)
KJV usage: accept, smell, X touch, make of quick understanding.
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: a primitive root
a ζsweet
nichowach (Hebrew #5207)
from 5117; properly, restful, i.e. pleasant; abstractly, delight
KJV usage: sweet (odour).
Pronounce: nee-kho'-akh
Origin: or niychoach {nee-kho'-akh}
i savor
reyach (Hebrew #7381)
odor (as if blown)
KJV usage: savour, scent, smell.
Pronounce: ray'-akh
Origin: from 7306
; and the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
in
'el (Hebrew #413)
a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to
KJV usage: about, according to ,after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
Pronounce: ale
Origin: (but only used in the shortened constructive form sel {el})
his heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
, I will not again
yacaph (Hebrew #3254)
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
KJV usage: add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give more-over, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, X yet, yield.
Pronounce: yaw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
k curse
qalal (Hebrew #7043)
to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
KJV usage: abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-)curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set) light(-en, -er, -ly, -ly afflict, -ly esteem, thing), X slight(-ly), be swift(-er), (be, be more, make, re-)vile, whet.
Pronounce: kaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
the ground
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
any more for man’s
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
sake
`abuwr (Hebrew #5668)
passive participle of 5674; properly, crossed, i.e. (abstractly) transit; used only adverbially, on account of, in order that
KJV usage: because of, for (...'s sake), (intent) that, to.
Pronounce: aw-boor'
Origin: or rabur {aw-boor'}
; ηfor thel imagination
yetser (Hebrew #3336)
a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. purpose)
KJV usage: frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.
Pronounce: yay'-tser
Origin: from 3335
of man’s
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
is evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
from his youth
na`uwr (Hebrew #5271)
and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'}; properly, passive participle from 5288 as denominative; (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
KJV usage: childhood, youth.
Pronounce: naw-oor'
Origin: or naur {naw-oor'}
; neither will I again
yacaph (Hebrew #3254)
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
KJV usage: add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give more-over, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, X yet, yield.
Pronounce: yaw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
m smite
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
any more every thing living
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
, as I have done
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Lev. 1:9• 9But its inwards and its legs shall he wash in water; and the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt offering, a fire-offering of sweet odour to Jehovah. (Lev. 1:9)
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Isa. 65:5• 5who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. (Isa. 65:5)
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Ezek. 20:41• 41I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. (Ezek. 20:41)
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2 Cor. 2:15• 15Because we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those to be saved, and in those that perish: (2 Cor. 2:15)
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savor of rest.
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Gen. 3:17• 17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days; (Gen. 3:17)
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Gen. 6:17• 17And I, behold I, bring the flood of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh wherein [is] the breath of life: all that [is] in the earth shall expire. (Gen. 6:17)
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or, though.
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Gen. 6:5• 5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man [was] great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually . (Gen. 6:5)
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Job 15:14• 14What [is] man that he should be clean,{HR}And one born of woman that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
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Rom. 1:21• 21Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened. (Rom. 1:21)
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Gen. 9:11,15• 11And I establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood, neither shall there be a flood anymore to destroy the earth.
 15and I will remember my covenant which is between me and between you and between every living soul among all flesh; and no more shall the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Gen. 9:11,15)

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Lev. 1:9,13,17• 9But its inwards and its legs shall he wash in water; and the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt offering, a fire-offering of sweet odour to Jehovah.
 13but the inwards and the legs shall be washed with water. And the priest shall present all and burn on the altar; it is a burnt-offering, a fire-offering of sweet savour to Jehovah.
 17and he shall split it at its wings, [but] not divide [it] asunder; and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on the fire: it is a burnt-offering, a fire-offering of sweet savour to Jehovah. (Lev. 1:9,13,17)
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Lev. 26:31• 31And I will lay waste your cities, and desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. (Lev. 26:31)
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Song of Sol. 4:10‑11• 10How fair is thy love, my sister spouse!{HR}How much better is thy love than wine,{HR}And the fragrance of thine ointment than all spices!
 11Thy lips, spouse, drop honeycomb;{HR}Honey and milk [are] under thy tongue;{HR}And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. (Song of Sol. 4:10‑11)
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Isa. 65:6• 6Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, (Isa. 65:6)
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Ezek. 20:41• 41I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. (Ezek. 20:41)
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Amos 5:21‑22• 21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
 22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. (Amos 5:21‑22)
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2 Cor. 2:15• 15Because we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those to be saved, and in those that perish: (2 Cor. 2:15)
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Eph. 5:2• 2even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell. (Eph. 5:2)
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Phil. 4:18• 18But I have all things and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. (Phil. 4:18)
sweet savour.
Heb. savour of rest.
curse.
Gen. 3:17• 17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days; (Gen. 3:17)
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Gen. 4:12• 12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield its strength to thee; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be on the earth. (Gen. 4:12)
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Gen. 5:29• 29and he called his name Noah, saying, This [one] shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning toil of our hands because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed. (Gen. 5:29)
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Gen. 6:17• 17And I, behold I, bring the flood of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh wherein [is] the breath of life: all that [is] in the earth shall expire. (Gen. 6:17)
for.
or, though.
the imagination.
Gen. 6:5• 5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man [was] great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually . (Gen. 6:5)
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Job 14:4• 4Who giveth a clean out of an unclean thing? Not one! (Job 14:4)
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Job 15:14‑16• 14What [is] man that he should be clean,{HR}And one born of woman that he should be righteous?
 15Behold, in his holy ones he trusteth not,{HR}And the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
 16How much less the abominable and corrupt,{HR}Man, that drinketh iniquity like water. (Job 15:14‑16)
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Psa. 51:5• 5Behold, in iniquity was I born,{HR}And in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)
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Psa. 58:3• 3The wicked are estranged from the womb;{HR}They err from the birth (belly), speaking lies. (Psa. 58:3)
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Prov. 20:9• 9Who can say, I have cleansed my heart,{HR}I am pure from my sin? (Prov. 20:9)
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Eccl. 7:20• 20Surely [there is] not a righteous man upon earth,{HR}That doeth good, and sinneth not. (Eccl. 7:20)
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Isa. 47:12• 12Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest terrify. (Isa. 47:12)
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Isa. 47:15• 15Thus shall they be unto thee wherein thou hast laboured; they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. (Isa. 47:15)
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Isa. 48:8• 8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. (Isa. 48:8)
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Isa. 53:6• 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)
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Jer. 8:6• 6I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle. (Jer. 8:6)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
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Jer. 18:12• 12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. (Jer. 18:12)
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Matt. 15:19• 19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)
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John 3:6• 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
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Rom. 1:21• 21Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened. (Rom. 1:21)
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Rom. 3:23• 23for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God, (Rom. 3:23)
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Rom. 8:7‑8• 7because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for indeed it cannot;
 8but those that are in flesh cannot please God. (Rom. 8:7‑8)
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Eph. 2:1‑3• 1And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
 2in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
 3among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:1‑3)
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James 1:14‑15• 14But each is tempted when by his own lust drawn away and enticed;
 15then lust having conceived bringeth forth sin; and sin when completed giveth birth to death. (James 1:14‑15)
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James 4:1‑2• 1Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members?
 2Ye lust and have not; ye kill and are jealous, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not; (James 4:1‑2)
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1 John 5:19• 19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the wicked one. (1 John 5:19)
neither.
Gen. 9:11‑15• 11And I establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood, neither shall there be a flood anymore to destroy the earth.
 12And God said, This [is the] sign of the covenant which I set between me and between you and between every living soul that is with you for everlasting generations:
 13my bow I have set in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and between the earth.
 14And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
 15and I will remember my covenant which is between me and between you and between every living soul among all flesh; and no more shall the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Gen. 9:11‑15)
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Isa. 54:9‑10• 9For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me; since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
 10For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee. (Isa. 54:9‑10)
as I.
2 Peter 3:6‑7• 6by which [waters] the then world being overflowed with water perished.
 7But the now heavens and the earth by the same word have been stored with fire, being kept for a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. (2 Peter 3:6‑7)
• Nor was Noah's any more than Abel's a sin-offering. What then suited was a burnt-offering. It was of a sweet savor, or savor of rest, and of course propitiatory (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 8:20-22” by W. Kelly)
• How blessed was the effect even of this witness to the great Sacrifice! Compare chap. 6:5-7. When Jehovah saw, not the sacrifice, but man's wickedness great in the earth. (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 8:20-22” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah smelled the sweet odourb. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

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Lit. "odour of rest."

W. Kelly Translation

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And Jehovah smelled the odour of rest. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not any more again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will not any more again smite every living thing as I have done.