ocr: Ar New Start - Genesis B:1-9:7 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done." 2 (Gen. 8:21) The gloomy tone of jenesis 7 brightens almost immediately. The next chapter tells of Noah and his family landing on an earth resh-scrubDed and sprouting new life. All the people who had SO grievously otrended God had died off. For the first time in years, human beings sought to please God: In his first act on land, Noah made an ofrering of thanksgiving. God showed his pleasure by responding with a solemn promise, the first of ...