But by having Noah construct the ark and serve perhaps for several decades as “a preacher of righteousness, ” Jehovah offered Noah’s contemporaries ample opportunity to repent of their violent ways and turn to serving Him.
بدین وسیله یَهُوَه به کسانی که در دوران نوح زندگی می‌کردند مهلت داد تا از طریق‌های بی‌رحمانهٔ خود بازگردند و شروع به خدمت او بنمایند .‏