¹⁹ In that state^[a] He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits^(A) in prison^{[b] 20} who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(B) while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people^[c](C)—were saved through water.

⁶ and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels^(A) who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.