²⁷ People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage. Everything seemed completely normal until the day Noah entered the ark. Then it started raining, and soon they were all destroyed by the flood.

²⁸ It was just the same in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building, and carrying on business as usual. ²⁹ But then came the day when Lot left Sodom—a different kind of rain began to fall, and they were all destroyed by fire and sulfur falling from the sky.^[a]