Matthew 24:38 — Compare Translations

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For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

English Amplified

For just as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, [men] marrying and [women] being given in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah went into the ark,

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For just as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, [men] marrying and [women] being given in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah went into the ark,

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,

English EASY 2024

In Noah's time, in the days before the flood, people were eating their meals every day. Men married women and women married men. They continued to do all these things until the day that Noah went into his big boat.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving their children to be married right up to the day Noah entered the boat.

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat;

English God's Word - GW 1995

In the days before the flood, people were eating, drinking, and getting married until the day that Noah went into the ship.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

English KJV 1611

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

English LSB

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark,

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

In (those) days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"In the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking. They were getting married. They were giving their daughters to be married. They did all those things right up to the day Noah entered the ark.

English NIV

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;

English NKJ 1982

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

English NLT

In those days before the Flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark,

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Before the flood, people lived their lives eating, drinking, marrying, and having children.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

just as it was in Noah's time before the sudden coming of the flood;

English Tyndale 1537

For as in the days before the flood: they did eat and drink, marry, and were married, even unto the day that Noe entered in to the ship,