Genesis 6:14-16

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¹⁴Make yourself an ark of gopher or cypress wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, and compartments) and cover it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).

¹⁵And this is the way you are to make it: the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits [that is, 450 ft. x 75 ft. x 45 ft.].

¹⁶You shall make a roof or ^[a]window [a place for light] for the ark and finish it to a cubit [at least 18 inches] above—and the ^[b]door of the ark you shall put in the side of it; and you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.

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Footnotes

Genesis 6:16 Noah’s ark possibly had a window area large enough to admit light and provide ventilation.
Genesis 6:16 “Here can only be meant an entrance which was afterward closed, and only opened again at the end of the flood. And since there were three stories of the ark, the word is to be understood, perhaps, of three entrances capable of being closed, and to which there would have been constructed a way of access from the outside” (J.P. Lange, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures).