Genesis 8:20-22

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[20] Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. [21] Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. [22] While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

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Ararat refers to the mountainous region, traditionally associated with eastern Anatolia near modern Turkey, where Noah’s ark came to rest after the flood. From this place of renewed beginning, Noah built an altar and worshiped, and God declared his sustaining covenantal purpose for the earth’s seasons and life.

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Genesis 8:20-22 mentions Ararat.