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15 Here is how I want you to build it. The ark has to be 450 feet long. It has to be 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it. Leave below the roof an opening all the way around that is a foot and a half high. Put a door in one side of the ark. Make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring a flood on the earth. It will destroy all life under the sky. It will destroy every living creature that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

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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(A) 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.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
  2. Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
  3. Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.