I'm just trying to help. I would suggest to you that are reading into it what you want it to say and not what it’s actually saying. In between the hyphens describes what baptism does. Peter is telling us when we get baptized it’s not to clean the flesh but to make an appeal to God.
21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
You will not find one person in OT times that was water baptized and then saved.
All who are saved must be 'baptized' first and then to show that completed salvation they desire to be 'water baptized'.
Was Abraham saved? Absolutely, a resounding yes.
Was Abraham water baptized? No.
Is Paul suggesting water baptism in this passage?
1 Cor. 10:1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
Paul is saying that salvation comes from above, from heaven, from God not that salvation comes from water.
They were all UNDER the cloud.
They all passed THROUGH the sea.
They were 'baptized' INTO MOSES.
TRANSLATION: Paul is saying that they believed what Moses told them and that that belief saved them, meaning, they followed the instructions of Moses.
When you read the Bible, you do make a distinction between 'baptized' and 'water baptize' do you not.
Yes, Abraham was 'baptized'.
No, Abraham was not 'water baptized'.
Not one Israelite going
through the red sea was water baptized.
Not one solitary one. Not one of them got wet.
However, they were saved
through the water, i.e., God provided the way for their salvation --- God parted the water so that they would not get wet.
Now, all the Egyptians were water baptized and were lost.
Getting wet does not save any one.
Being BAPTIZED in Christ saves one.