Noah’s Deliverance

8 Then God ^(A)remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. ^(B)And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

²³ And Abraham ^(A)came near and said, ^(B)“Would You also ^(C)destroy the ^(D)righteous with the wicked?

⁸ but ^(A)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep ^(B)the oath which He swore to your fathers, ^(C)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of ^[a]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

^5 (A)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may ^[a]fulfill the ^(B)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

²⁷ Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,