Genesis 8:20
Hebrew Bible
19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups. 20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Jubilees 6:2
Pseudepigrapha
1 On the first of the third month he left the ark and built an altar on this mountain. 2 He appeared on the earth, took a kid, and atoned with its blood for all the sins of the earth because everything that was on it had been obliterated except those who were in the ark with Noah. 3 He placed the fat on the altar. Then he took a bull, a ram, a sheep, goats, salt, a turtledove, and a dove and offered them as a burnt offering on the altar. He poured on them an offering mixed with oil, sprinkled wine, and put frankincense on everything. He sent up a pleasant fragrance that was pleasing before the Lord.
Date: 150-100 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The perversity and wickedness referred to in the first strophe is here construed as defilement or impurity. The reference is very likely to the bloodshed described in chapter 7, and its rectification requires cultic purification. Such purification could be the flood. On the other hand, this passage may be an interpretation of Genesis 8:20. According to Jubilees 6:2 and Genesis Apocryphon 10:13 after it, Noah sacrificed in order to atone for the earth ... some connotation with Leviticus 16:30 is here, given the parallels in Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon ..."
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108
(pp. 227-228) Fortress Press, 2001
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