that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
whiche weren sum tyme vnbileueful, whanne þei abididen þe pacience of God in þe daies of Noe, whanne þe schip was maad, in which a few, þat is to seie, eiyte soulis weren maad saaf bi water.