⁴ For in seven days ^(A)I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, ^(B)and every living thing^[a] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^(A)preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^(B)a flood upon the world of the ungodly;