Study it in the app“And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human being, for the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.”
AndוַYHWHיְהוָהsmelledיָּרַחthe pleasing aroma,אֶת רֵיחַ הַנִּיחֹחַandוַYHWHיְהוָהsaidיֹּאמֶרin his heart,אֶל לִבּוֹ“I will neverלֹאagainאֹסִף עוֹדcurseלְקַלֵּלthe groundאֶת הָאֲדָמָהbecause ofבַּעֲבוּרthe human being,הָאָדָםforכִּיthe inclinationיֵצֶרof the heartלֵבof the human beingהָאָדָםisevilרַעfrom his youth;מִנְּעֻרָיוandוְI will neverלֹאagainאֹסִף עוֹדstrikeלְהַכּוֹתeveryאֶת כָּלliving thing,חַיasכַּאֲשֶׁרI have done.עָשִׂיתִי
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssmell
To smell something.
Where else “yarach” appearsaroma, smell
Smell, scent, aroma; "pleasing aroma" is said of offerings accepted by God.
Where else “reach” appearspleasing, soothing
Pleasing, soothing. "A pleasing aroma" is the way of saying that God receives a sacrifice with favor.
Where else “nichoach” appearsthink
To speak inwardly without saying it aloud; to think.
Where else “yomer” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lib” appearsdo again
To do again what had already been done.
Where else “osif” appearscurse
To speak words against someone that wish him harm.
Where else “kalel” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appearshuman being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appearsinclination
What one thinks and intends inside.
Where else “yetser” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “ra” appearsyouth
Youth: the time of being young.
Where else “neuray” appearspunish
God punishes with a plague.
Where else “hakot” appearsbeast
Literally "living thing": a creature, especially a wild one.
Where else “chay” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asiti” appears“Pleasing aroma” (reach nichoach) sounds in Hebrew like the name of Noah (Noach) and comes from the same root, “rest.”
20And Noah built an altar to YHWH, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 · This verse (above)
22While all the days of the earth remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.”
1. What it says
What happened when Elohim remembered Noah, and what did Noah do when he came out of the ark (vv. 1, 20)?
2. What it means
What does YHWH’s promise never again to curse the ground because of humans mean (v. 21)?
3. How I live it
For what good thing can you give thanks today, as Noah did when he came out of the ark?
