⁴ Seven days from now I will send rain^(A) on the earth^(B) for forty days^(C) and forty nights,^(D) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.^(E)”

²¹ Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.^{(A) 22} Everything on dry land that had the breath of life^(B) in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.^(C) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.^(D)

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world^(A) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,^(B) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;^(C)