²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so it will be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage^(B) until the day Noah boarded the ark,^(C) and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot:^(D) People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.