15 This is how you are to build it: the ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[a] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[b] high all around.[c] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:15 That is, about 135 metres long, 23 metres wide and 14 metres high
  2. Genesis 6:16 That is, about 45 centimetres
  3. Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.