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Genesis 6:15-17
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15 This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[a] 16 Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches[b] from the top.[c] Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks. 17 I am about to bring[d] floodwaters[e] on the earth to destroy[f] from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them.[g] Everything that is on the earth will die,

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  1. Genesis 6:15 tn Heb “300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about 18 inches (45 cm) long.
  2. Genesis 6:16 tn Heb “a cubit.”
  3. Genesis 6:16 tn Heb “to a cubit you shall finish it from above.” The idea is that Noah was to leave an 18-inch opening from the top for a window for light.
  4. Genesis 6:17 tn The Hebrew construction uses the independent personal pronoun, followed by a suffixed form of הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) and the participle used with an imminent future nuance: “As for me, look, I am going to bring.”
  5. Genesis 6:17 tn Heb “the flood, water.”
  6. Genesis 6:17 tn The verb שָׁחָת (shakhat, “to destroy”) is repeated yet again, only now in an infinitival form expressing the purpose of the flood.
  7. Genesis 6:17 tn The Hebrew construction here is different from the previous two; here it is רוּחַ חַיִּים (ruakh khayyim) rather than נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה (nefesh khayyah) or נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים (nishmat khayyim). It refers to everything that breathes.
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