Luke 17:27
Good News Translation
Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.

New Revised Standard Version
They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them.

Contemporary English Version
People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day when Noah went into the big boat. Then the flood came and drowned everyone on earth.

New American Bible
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Luke 16:19-23 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:10-12 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, . . .

Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them, . . .

1 Samuel 25:36-38 And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. . . .

Job 21:9-13 Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them. . . .

Isaiah 21:4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Isaiah 22:12-14 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you: . . .

Context
The Coming of the Kingdom
26And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:7
And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:23
And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

1 Samuel 30:16
And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.

Isaiah 47:11
Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Matthew 22:30
For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

Luke 17:26
And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Luke 17:28
Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.

Luke 17:26
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