Breishit / Genesis Chapter 8 verses 20 – 22 according to the translation of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
20 Noah built an altar to God. He took a few of all the clean livestock and
all the clean birds and he sacrificed completely-burned offerings*[i] on the
Altar.
21 God smelled the appeasing fragrance*[ii] and God said to Himself,
“Never again will I curse the soil because of man, for the inclination of
man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike down all life as I have just done.
22 As long as the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night, shall never again cease [to exist].”
Rambam (Maimonides), Hilchot Beit Habechira 2:2 as translated
by Eliyahu Touger, Moznaim Publishing at Sefaria.org
It is universally accepted that the place on which David and Solomon built the Altar, the threshing floor of Ornan[iii] is the location where Abraham built the Altar on which he prepared Isaac for sacrifice.
Noah built [an altar] on that location when he left the ark. It was also [the place] of the Altar on which Cain and Abel brought sacrifices. [Similarly,] Adam, the first man, offered a sacrifice there and was created at that very spot, as our Sages said: “Man was created from the place where he [would find] atonement.”
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[i] completely burned offerings. Oloth in Hebrew, literally, offerings that ascend, since the entire offering ascends when it is burned. Usually translated as “burnt offerings.” Others, however, interpret it as “uplifting offerings” (Hirsch). Also see Genesis 22:2, Exodus 18:12, 24:5.
[ii] appeasing fragrance. Nicho’ach in Hebrew, related to the name Noach (Noah). Others translate this as pleasant fragrance,” “scent of satisfaction,” or “expression of compliance” (Hirsch). It means that God was pleased with the sacrifice (Ibn Ezra). See Leviticus chapter 1.
[iii] Aravna