7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,^(A) because I have found you righteous^(B) in this generation.

⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark^(A) to escape the waters of the flood.

¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons,^(A) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.^(B)

²⁰ to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently^(A) in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.^(B) In it only a few people, eight in all,^(C) were saved^(D) through water,

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world^(A) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,^(B) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;^(C)