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13 So God announced to Noah, “I’ve decided to destroy every living thing on earth,[a] because it has become filled with violence due to them. Look! I’m about to annihilate them, along with the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark out of cedar,[b] constructing compartments in it, and cover it inside and out with tar. 15 Make the ark like this: 300 cubits[c] long, 50 cubits[d] wide, and 30 cubits[e] high.

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  1. Genesis 6:13 Lit. The end of all flesh has come before me
  2. Genesis 6:14 Or cypress
  3. Genesis 6:15 I.e. about 450 feet
  4. Genesis 6:15 I.e. about 75 feet
  5. Genesis 6:15 I.e. about 45 feet

13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy(A) both them and the earth.(B) 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood;(C) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch(D) inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b]

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  1. Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high