^{21 Ref} And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

^{22 Ref} While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.