Genesis 8:21
Hebrew Bible
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. 22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Leviticus 26:31
Hebrew Bible
30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you. 31 I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. 32 I myself will make the land desolate, and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. 33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... 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) ..."
Heidel, Alexander
The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels
(p. 265) University of Chicago Press, 1973
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