God Commands the Building of the Ark

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God said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.

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Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.

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Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet.

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You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.

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“Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.

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But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

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“From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female.

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Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive.

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Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them.”

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This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.

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