And I shall set my covenant of peace with thee; and thou shalt enter into the ship, [thou], and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons shall enter with thee.
For as in the days before the great flood, they were eating and drinking, wedding and taking to wedding, till that day, that Noah entered into the ship;
They ate and drank, wedded wives, and were given to weddings, till into the day in which Noah entered into the ship; and the great flood came, and lost all.
By faith Noah dreaded, through answer taken of these things that yet were not seen, and shaped a ship [or an ark] into the health of his house; by which he condemned the world, and is ordained heir of rightwiseness, which is by faith.
that by two things unmoveable, by which it is impossible that God lie, we have strongest solace, [or comfort], we that flee together to hold the hope that is put forth to us.
which were sometime unbelieve-ful, when they abided the patience of God in the days of Noah, when the ship [or the ark] was made, in which a few, that is to say, eight souls were made safe by water.
and spared not the first world, but kept Noah, the eighth man, the before-goer of rightwiseness, and brought in the great flood [or the deluge] to the world of unfaithful men;