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Genesis 6:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. "
Genesis 6:15
Verse in Context
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13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the earth will die.
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Genesis 6:1
"When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,"
Genesis 6:2
"God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives."
Genesis 6:3
"The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”"
Genesis 6:4
"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown."
Genesis 6:5
"The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil."
Genesis 6:6
"The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart."
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