^17:27People⁷⁷ were eating,⁷⁸ they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then⁷⁹ the flood came and destroyed them all.⁸⁰^17:28Likewise, just as it was⁸¹ in the days of Lot, people⁸² were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

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Footnotes

77 Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.
78 These verbs (“eating … drinking … marrying … being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.
79 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
80 Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.
81 Or “as it happened.”
82 Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

NLTNew Living Translation

In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.

“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building.

KJV 1900King James Version

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

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