Genesis 6:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶You shall make a roof or ^[a]window [a place for light] for the ark and finish it to a cubit [at least 18 inches] above—and the ^[b]door of the ark you shall put in the side of it; and you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.

¹⁷For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy and make putrid all flesh under the heavens in which are the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.

¹⁸But I will establish My covenant (promise, pledge) with you, and you shall come into the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

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Footnotes

Genesis 6:16 Noah’s ark possibly had a window area large enough to admit light and provide ventilation.
Genesis 6:16 “Here can only be meant an entrance which was afterward closed, and only opened again at the end of the flood. And since there were three stories of the ark, the word is to be understood, perhaps, of three entrances capable of being closed, and to which there would have been constructed a way of access from the outside” (J.P. Lange, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures).