Genesis 8:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ 1 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ When the Lord smelled the pleasing odor [a scent of satisfaction to His heart], the Lord said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination (the strong desire) of man's heart is evil and wicked from his youth; neither will I ever again smite and destroy every living thing, as I have done.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for that the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.

Common English Bible

²¹ The LORD smelled the pleasing scent, and the LORD thought to himself, I will not curse the fertile land anymore because of human beings since the ideas of the human mind are evil from their youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: "I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Genesis 8:21 Cross References

Genesis 3:17

7 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Genesis 4:12

2 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Genesis 5:29

9 And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth which the Lord hath cursed.

Genesis 6:13

3 He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

7 Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

Genesis 6:5

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Genesis 6:7

He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Job 14:4

At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

Psalm 51:5

2 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

Psalm 58:3

0 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

Psalm 58:4

1 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

Exodus 29:18

1 And when thou hast taken of the blood, that is upon the altar, and of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, his sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are consecrated,

Exodus 29:25

8 Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aarons share and his sons' by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their peace victims which they offer to the Lord.

Proverbs 20:9

6 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

7 Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,

Isaiah 47:12

I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them.

Isaiah 47:15

Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 48:8

6 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

Isaiah 53:6

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy tabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

Isaiah 65:6

4 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.

Jeremiah 17:9

7 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.

Jeremiah 18:12

0 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.

Jeremiah 8:6

4 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:41

9 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Leviticus 1:13

When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,

Leviticus 1:17

If thy oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven,

Leviticus 1:9

4 But if the oblation of a holocaust to the Lord be of birds, of turtles, or of young pigeons,

Leviticus 26:31

6 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth them,

Leviticus 4:31

If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 8:28

3 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired. For in seven days the consecration is finished:

Numbers 15:3

But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to fulfil thy vow or for victims of peace offerings,

Matthew 15:19

7 But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

John 3:6

4 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

Romans 1:21

9 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,

Romans 3:23

1 Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.

2 Corinthians 2:15

Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:

Ephesians 5:2

1 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Philippians 4:18

Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which you have towards all the saints.

1 John 5:19

For many seducers are gone out into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a seducer and an antichrist.

1 Samuel 26:19

4 And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from all distress.