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.

¹⁶ as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows^(A) and galleries around the three of them—everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.^(B)

¹⁶ The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.^(A) Then the Lord shut him in.

²⁵ Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’

“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’^(A)

³ Both in the section twenty cubits^[a] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery^(A) faced gallery at the three levels.^(B)

Jezebel Killed

³⁰ Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup,^(A) arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

¹⁶ As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David,^(A) Michal^(B) daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

⁶ After forty days^(A) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark