¹⁶ Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit^[a] high all around.^[b] 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) 18} But I will establish my covenant with you,^(C) and you will enter the ark^(D)—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.