Luke 17:27 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁷ People were eating and drinking and [men were] marrying and [women] were being given away in marriage [right up] until the day that Noah entered the ship and the Flood came and drowned them all.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ [People] ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. [Gen. 6:5-8; 7:6-24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Common English Bible

²⁷ People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ They were eating and drinking; they were taking wives and being given in marriage, even until the day that Noah entered the ark. And the flood came and destroyed them all.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:27 Cross References

Matthew 22:30

For in the resurrected state men do not get married, nor are women given away in marriage, but [all] are like angels in heaven.

Luke 17:26

“And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of man.

Luke 17:28

“It happened in a similar way in the days of Lot [i.e., Abraham’s nephew]. People were eating and drinking and buying and selling and planting and building.