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So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
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But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
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Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
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But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
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“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
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All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
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and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.
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The Sons of Noah
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
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Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
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The Ark
“Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
