In Genesis, what is Noah’s first action after the Flood waters recede and he leaves the Ark?

In Genesis, Noah’s first recorded action after leaving the Ark is building an altar.

Genesis 8:20 says that Noah builds an altar to the Lord after he, his family, and the animals leave the Ark. He then takes some clean animals and clean birds and offers burnt offerings on the altar. The passage places this act before the later account in which Noah plants a vineyard.

This order matters because retellings often move quickly from the Ark to the vineyard episode. Genesis presents a sequence: the Ark opens, the occupants leave, Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifices, God makes a covenant, and Noah later plants a vineyard.

The clean-animal detail also connects the post-Flood sacrifice with the earlier instructions about animals entering the Ark. Different translations vary in wording, but they consistently place the altar immediately after Noah’s departure from the Ark in the narrative chronology.