Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.
I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.
When He withholds the waters, everything dries up, and when He releases them, they destroy the land.
People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;