8:13-17
The getting out of the ark took quite a time and Noah seems to have been very cautious, perhaps understandably so. Noah had built and entered the ark at God’s command, he came out of the ark at God’s command. So Noah does come out. He is given a command, which is to be fruitful, and all the animals are likewise to be fruitful. They were to multiply and fill the earth. God’s purpose has not changed since creation;
8:18-22
So Noah and his family, and all the animals came out of the ark. Noah built an altar and sacrificed some of the clean animals to the Lord. Making sacrifices seems to be deeply ingrained in humanity, for Cain and Abel made sacrifices. The aroma of the sacrifice was pleasing to the Lord, and He vowed never again to curse the ground because of man. Remember that a good working definition of “curse” is God’s judgement on man’s sin. God makes this promise despite the state of man’s heart. Nor was it made in ignorance of the state of man’s heart, He knows how sinful we are. Note that we are sinful from childhood. We sometimes talk about the innocence of children. There is some truth in this, but it is largely because they haven’t had the chance to become experts at siin yet! God will not destroy all life again.
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