²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,^(B) up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.^(C)

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)

²⁴ For the Son of Man in his day^[a] will be like the lightning,^(A) which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.

¹⁹ After being made alive,^[a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits^(A)— ²⁰ to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently^(B) in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.^(C) In it only a few people, eight in all,^(D) were saved^(E) through water,

⁷ By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen,^(A) in holy fear built an ark^(B) to save his family.^(C) By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.^(D)

²² Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man,^(A) but you will not see it.^(B)

⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark^(A) to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean^(B) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹ male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.^{(C) 10} And after the seven days^(D) the floodwaters came on the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,^(E) on the seventeenth day of the second month^(F)—on that day all the springs of the great deep^(G) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens^(H) were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.^(I)

¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons,^(J) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.^{(K) 14} They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,^(L) everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.^{(M) 16} The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.^(N) Then the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷ For forty days^(O) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹ They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.^{(P) 20} The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.^{[a][b] (Q) 21} Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.^{(R) 22} Everything on dry land that had the breath of life^(S) in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.^(T) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.^(U)

⁶ By these waters also the world of that time^(A) was deluged and destroyed.^(B)