And the Lord smelt the goodly savour, and He made a covenant with him that there should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth;
that all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest should never cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor cease for ever.
"And you, increase ye and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it.
The fear of you and the dread of you I shall inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea.