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Genesis 6:15

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.

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

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.

17 And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

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BSB
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
KJV
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.
WEB
This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
ASV
And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
DARBY
And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
BLB
And this [is] how you shall make it: Three hundred cubits [is] the length of the ark, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height.
ÅB
Slik skal du gjøre den: Arken skal være tre hundre alen lang, femti alen bred, og tretti alen høy.
OTB
Slik skal du bygge den: arken skal være tre hundre alen lang, femti alen bred, og tretti alen høy.
B1930
Således skal du gjøre den: Arken skal være tre hundre alen lang, femti alen bred, og tretti alen høi.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 7:20

    The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

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  • Deuteronomy 3:11

    (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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