• 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
• 1Pet 3:21 — The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
• Gen 6:14 — Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
• Gen 7:1 — And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
• Gen 7:7 — And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
• Gen 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and N

5 Christian traditions affirm this interpretation.

• Roman Catholic · Catholic
• Evangelical · Evangelical
• Eastern Orthodox · Orthodox
• Patristic · Patristic
• Reformed · Reformed

16 passages from 10 historic works cite scripture this interpretation depends on.

• Catechism of the Catholic Church · 3 passages
• Commentary on Genesis · 2 passages
• Summa Theologica · 2 passages
• Heidelberg Catechism · 2 passages
• Second Helvetic Confession · 2 passages
• Antiquities of the Jews · 1 passage
• Homilies on the Gospel of John · 1 passage
• 1 Clement (Letter to the Corinthians) · 1 passage
• Against the Arians (Orationes contra Arianos) · 1 passage
• Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) · 1 passage