創世記8:15-22

8:15 上帝對挪亞說：
8:16 「你和你的妻子、兒子、兒婦都可以出方舟。
8:17 在你那裡凡有血肉的活物，就是飛鳥、牲畜，和一切爬在地上的昆蟲，都要帶出來，叫牠在地上多多滋生，大大興旺。」
8:18 於是挪亞和他的妻子、兒子、兒婦都出來了。
8:19 一切走獸、昆蟲、飛鳥，和地上所有的動物，各從其類，也都出了方舟。
8:20 挪亞為耶和華築了一座壇，拿各類潔淨的牲畜、飛鳥獻在壇上為燔祭。
8:21 耶和華聞那馨香之氣，就心裡說：「我不再因人的緣故咒詛地（人從小時心裡懷著惡念），也不再按著我才行的滅各種的活物了。
8:22 地還存留的時候，稼穡、寒暑、冬夏、晝夜就永不停息了。」

¹⁵ Then God said to Noah, ¹⁶ “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. ¹⁷ Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
¹⁸ So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 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 and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. ²¹ The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though^[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

²² “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”

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    上帝雖然大費周章除掉了世上一切的惡人，雖然挪亞是上帝看為義的人，其實留下來的人仍然是從小時心裡懷著惡念，也就是說人仍然還是有罪性。所以，上帝設立獻祭來預表基督，使人盼望上帝的救贖。

    然而上帝也因為挪亞獻祭所產生的「馨香之氣」，心裡喜悅，賜福大地：「我不再因人的緣故咒詛地，也不再按著我才行的滅各種的活物了。地還存留的時候，稼穡、寒暑、冬夏、晝夜就永不停息了。」

    可見，上帝樂意與人同在，樂意赦免人的罪，只要人肯順服，上帝的福份是永不斷絕的！求上帝在基督裡，大大的賜福我們！