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26 Remember what happened when Noah was alive.[a] It will be like that at the time when the Son of Man returns to the earth. 27 In Noah's time, people were eating their meals every day. Men and women continued to marry. They continued to do all this until the day when Noah went into his boat. Then it rained for a long time and there was deep water everywhere. The water killed all the people.

28 The same kind of thing happened when Lot was alive.[b] People in the city of Sodom were eating their meals every day. They were buying and selling things. They were planting their seeds and they were building their houses.

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  1. 17:26 We can read about Noah in Genesis 6.
  2. 17:28 We can read about Lot in Genesis 19.