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Genesis 6:16-18
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16 Make a roof on the ark one cubit high.[a] Place a door in the side of the ark. Make it with three decks: lower, middle, and higher.

17 “Behold, I will send a flood. The waters shall cover the earth to destroy the life of everything under the skies that has the breath of life in it. Everything on the earth shall perish. 18 But I will establish a covenant with you.

“Go into the ark, you and your sons, your wife, and the wives of your sons. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:16 A cubit was about 50 cm or one and a half feet. The ark was about 156 meters long, 26 meters wide, and 15 meters high (440 x 72 x 44 feet). It was a floating parallelepiped of about 55,000 or 60,000 cubic meters (82,000 or 90,000 cubic feet).
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