⁴ Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

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;