"... rendered literally, the Babylonian lines read: "The gods smelled the odor; the gods smelled the good odor." Genesis 8:21 states: "And the Lord smelled the odor of tranquillization." The wording is not quite the same. Moreover, there is not a single etymological correspondence between the terms employed in one version and those used in the other. But the main consideration against the above contention is the fact that Genesis 8:21 does not contain an element foreign to the Old Testament but one which is identical in thought and language with numerous other passages. Exactly the same phraseology is found in Leviticus 26:31: "I will not smell the odor of your tranquillization." Much the same phrase occurs again in Amos 5:21: "I will not smell your solemn assemblies," and in 1 Samuel 26:19: "Let Him smell an offering," The same idea we meet again in the ever-recurring phrase of the ritual "a sweet savor unto the Lord," or, literally, "an odor of tranquillization unto the Lord" (compare especially Leviticus) ..."