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Genesis 8:21-22

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8:21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma 1  and said 2  to himself, 3  “I will never again curse 4  the ground because of humankind, even though 5  the inclination of their minds 6  is evil from childhood on. 7  I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

8:22 “While the earth continues to exist, 8 

planting time 9  and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

and day and night will not cease.”

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[8:21]  1 tn The Lord “smelled” (וַיָּרַח, vayyarakh) a “soothing smell” (רֵיחַ הַנִּיהֹחַ, reakh hannihoakh). The object forms a cognate accusative with the verb. The language is anthropomorphic. The offering had a sweet aroma that pleased or soothed. The expression in Lev 1 signifies that God accepts the offering with pleasure, and in accepting the offering he accepts the worshiper.

[8:21]  2 tn Heb “and the Lord said.”

[8:21]  3 tn Heb “in his heart.”

[8:21]  4 tn Here the Hebrew word translated “curse” is קָלָל (qalal), used in the Piel verbal stem.

[8:21]  5 tn The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) can be used in a concessive sense (see BDB 473 s.v. כִּי), which makes good sense in this context. Its normal causal sense (“for”) does not fit the context here very well.

[8:21]  6 tn Heb “the inclination of the heart of humankind.”

[8:21]  7 tn Heb “from his youth.”

[8:22]  8 tn Heb “yet all the days of the earth.” The idea is “[while there are] yet all the days of the earth,” meaning, “as long as the earth exists.”

[8:22]  9 tn Heb “seed,” which stands here by metonymy for the time when seed is planted.



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