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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

13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

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