20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah(A) while the ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people[a](B)—were saved through water.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:20 Or souls

and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,(A) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,[a](B) when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;

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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 Lit Noah, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness

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