¹⁸ But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

⁷ “I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants^[a] after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

¹³ That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.

⁷ He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.

⁵ And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.

²⁰ those who disobeyed God long ago when God waited patiently while Noah was building his boat. Only eight people were saved from drowning in that terrible flood.^[a]

⁷ It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.

Restoration for Israel

²¹ But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year.”

⁴ “This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations!