Genesis 6:14

Easy To Read Version

Use cypress wood [41] and build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the boat, [42] and cover the boat with tar. [43]

Cross References

Genesis 6:13

So God said to Noah, “All people have filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.

Genesis 6:15

“This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits [44] long, 50 cubits [45] wide, and 30 cubits [46] high.

Exodus 2:3

The mother was afraid that the baby would be found and killed because he was a boy. After three months, she made a basket and covered it with tar [6] so that it would float. She put the baby in the basket. Then she put the basket in the river in the tall grass.

Matthew 24:38

In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking. People were marrying and giving their children to be married. The people were still doing those things until the day Noah entered the boat.

Luke 17:27

In the time of Noah, people were eating, drinking, and getting married even on the day when Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed all the people.

1 Peter 3:20

Those were the spirits who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the big boat. Only a few people—eight in all—were saved in that boat. Those people were saved by water.