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Genesis 6:14

Obedience

12 And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

15 And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

16 You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
KJV
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
WEB
Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
ASV
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
DARBY
Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: [with] cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
BLB
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark and you shall cover it inside and outside with a covering.
ÅB
Gjør deg en ark av gofertre, gjør kammer i arken og stryk den innvendig og utvendig med bek!
OTB
Lag deg en ark av gofertre; lag rom i arken og stryk den med bek både innvendig og utvendig.
B1930
Gjør dig en ark av gofertre, gjør kammer i arken og stryk den innvendig og utvendig med bek!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Peter 3:20

    who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

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  • Luke 17:27

    People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

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  • Matthew 24:38

    For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

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  • Exodus 2:3

    But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

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