¹⁴ Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.^[a] Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

^27 (A)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

^38 (A)For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, ^(B)marrying and giving in marriage, until ^(C)the day when Noah entered the ark,

³ When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes^[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the ^(A)reeds by the river bank.

²⁰ because^[a] they formerly did not obey, ^(A)when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, ^(B)while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, ^(C)eight persons, were brought safely through water.