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I once considered that verse and here is my thought.

God cursed the ground for man to have to work to eat bread. The ground would bring up thorns and thistles making cultivation very hard. For the first time, mankind was allowed to eat meat in Noahs' day. This alleviated work to raise and cultivate crops. In the beginning, God planted the trees of the Garden, and Adam had it made. No work to do. God prepared it already. Man only had to maintain it. But when the curse occurred, man had to work the ground to eat food. Allowing man to eat meat somewhat alleviated that work since no work on the ground was necessary for meat.

But more significantly, God said he would not curse the ground for man's sake any more due to Noah's sacrifice after the flood was over.

I think Noah is a type of Jesus as well. Jesus is the true Noah whose ark of His body saved us by having us come into Christ's death as into an ark, that we may pass through death like a flood and come out the other side free of sin. So there is a prophetic picture of Jesus as well.

Noah's name actually means REST.