Genesis 6:14 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁴ “Make yourself an ark of gopherwood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with a covering.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Make 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).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ so make a wooden ark. Make the ark with nesting places and cover it inside and out with tar.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Make yourself an ark from smoothed wood. You shall make little dwelling places in the ark, and you shall smear pitch on the interior and exterior.

Genesis 6:14 Cross References

1 Peter 3:20

who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noaḥ, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight beings, were saved through water,

Luke 17:27

“They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Matthew 24:38

For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ entered into the ark,

Exodus 2:3

And when she could hide him no longer, she took an ark of wicker for him, and coated it with tar and pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the edge of the river.

Genesis 6:13

and Elohim said to Noaḥ, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And see, I am going to destroy them from the earth.

Genesis 6:15

“And this is how you are to make it: The length of the ark is three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.