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14 ‘Make yourself an ark of gopher[a] wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. 15 This is how you are to make it: the ark will be 135 metres long, 23 metres wide, and 13.5 metres high.[b] 16 You are to make a roof,[c] finishing the sides of the ark to within forty-five centimetres[d] of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:14 Unknown species of tree; perhaps pine or cypress
  2. 6:15 Or 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high
  3. 6:16 Or window, or hatch; Hb uncertain
  4. 6:16 Lit to a cubit