²⁰ who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(A) while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people^[a](B)—were saved through water.

⁵ and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,^(A) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,^[a](B) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;