15 This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[a] 16 You are to make a roof,[b] finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches[c] of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

17 “Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth(A) to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:15 Or 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high
  2. Genesis 6:16 Or window, or hatch; Hb uncertain
  3. Genesis 6:16 Lit to a cubit

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