Genesis 6:15

This is how you must build it: the length of the ark must be five hundred feet, its breadth eighty feet, and its height fifty feet.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14Make yourself an ark of cypress wood. Construct rooms in the ark, and coat it within and without with pitch.

16Make a roof for it and place the door on the side. Construct it with lower, second, and third storeys.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:20by more than twenty feet.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:14-22

Prediction of the Deluge. ( b. c. 2448.) 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. 16 A window… Read the whole commentary →

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