And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Josephus, who says that Noah accompanied his offering with an earnest prayer that God, having destroyed all the wicked, would deal mercifully to the small remnant who were spared, and not expose them to the punishment of another deluge, represents the words in this verse as an answer to that prayer, assuring the pious patriarch that the course of nature would be allowed to go on in the same peaceful order as previously, and that if extraordinary showers of rain should at any time fall, they would not be a judicial infliction on mankind.