Genesis 6:15

_AND THIS IS THE FASHION WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE IT OF: THE LENGTH OF THE ARK SHALL BE THREE HUNDRED CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF IT FIFTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT OF IT THIRTY CUBITS._ And this is the fashion. According to the description, the ark was a ship, destined not to sail, but 'only to float-an oblong, flat-bottomed chest. Assuming the cubit to be 18 inches, the dimensions of the ark would be 450 feet in length by 75 feet in breadth and 45 feet in height; or, taking the cubit at 21,888 inches, the vessel would measure 547 feet long, 91 feet 2 inches wide, and 47 feet 2 inches high; that is, three times the length of a first-rate Man-of-War in the British navy. The dimensions of the 'Great Eastern' exceed those of the ark, being 691 feet in length, 83 feet in breadth, and 58 feet in depth....

12-21 God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psalms 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he chooses the sword with which he cuts off his enemies. God established his covenant with Noah. This is the first place in the Bible where the word 'covenant' is found; it seems to mean, 1. The covenant of providence; that the course of nature shall be continued to the end of time. 2. The covenant of grace; that God would be a God to Noah, and that out of his seed God would take to himself a people. God directed Noah to make an ark. This ark was like the hulk of a ship, fitted to float upon the waters. It was...

Verse Genesis 6:15. _THOU SHALT MAKE - THE LENGTH OF THE ARK-THREE HUNDRED_ _CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF IT FIFTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT OF IT_ _THIRTY CUBITS_] Allowing the cubit, which is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, to be _eighteen_ inches, the ark must have been _four hundred and fifty_ feet in length, _seventy-five_ in breadth, and _forty-five_ in height. But that the ancient cubit was more than _eighteen_ inches has been demonstrated by Mr. Greaves, who travelled in Greece, Palestine, and Egypt, in order to be able to ascertain the _weights_, _moneys_, and _measures_ of antiquity. He measured the pyramids in Egypt, and comparing the accounts which Herodotus, Strabo, and others, give of their size, he found the length of a cubit to be _twenty-one_ inches and eight hundred...

- Section VI - The Deluge - XXIII. The Ark 9. דור _dôr_ “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individual. Hence, the “race” or “generation” living during that time. 14. תבה _tēbâh_ “chest, ark.” It is used only of this vessel of Noah’s construction, and of the little vessel in which Moses was put Exodus 2:3, Exodus 2:5. The root, according to Furst, means “to be hollow.” אבה _'ēbeh_ a cognate word, signifies “a reed;” κιβωτός _kibōtos_ Septuagint....

§ 4. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH (CH. 6:9-9:29). EXPOSITION GENESIS 6:9 THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH. "Novi capitis initium = "haec est historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. Genesis 5:1). NOAH (_vide _Genesis 5:29) WAS A JUST MAN. צַדִּיק: not of spotless innocence (Knobel); but upright, honest, virtuous, pious (_vir probus_);_ _from צָדַּק, to be straight, hence to be just; Piel to render just or righteous (Eccl. Lat; _justificare_)_, to _declare any one just or innocent (Gesenius); better "justified" or declared righteous, being derived fro

AND THIS [IS THE FASHION] WHICH THOU SHALL MAKE IT OF,.... The form and size of it, its length, breadth, and height, as follows: THE LENGTH OF THE ARK [SHALL BE] THREE HUNDRED CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF IT FIFTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT OF IT THIRTY CUBITS; which some interpret of geometrical cubits, each of which contained six ordinary cubits; others of sacred cubits, which were larger by an hand's breadth than the common cubit; but the general opinion of learned men now is, that they were common cubits of eighteen inches long; and by the geometrical calculations made by them it is found, that the ark of such dimensions was abundantly sufficient to contain Noah, and his family, and the various creatures, and all necessary provisions for them q. But if the Jewish and Egyptian cubit, the cubit of the Scriptures, as Dr. Cumberland r has shown it to be, consisted of twenty one inches and upwards...

IV. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH CHAPTER 6:9-22 Before the Flood _ 1. Noah walked with God (Genesis 6:9)_ 2. The earth filled with violence (Genesis 6:11) 3. The building of the ark commanded (Genesis 6:14) 4. Noah's obedience (Genesis 6:22) It was grace which constituted Noah just and enabled him to walk with God. Hebrews 11:7 gives a full definition of Noah's faith. Seven things are shown concerning Noah: Warned of God -- The ground of faith Things not seen -- The realm of faith He feared -- The exercise

THE FLOOD. This section has been very skilfully composed from both J and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 6:12 f.; Genesis 7:7 and Genesis 7:13; Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 7:12; Genesis 7:17 and Genesis 7:18 f.; G

THE LENGTH OF THE ARK SHALL BE THREE HUNDRED CUBITS. "The fashion of the ark," its proportions, but not its actual form, are given. The cubit was not. fixed measure, varying from 18 to 21 inches. "The proportions do not vary much from those of the Great Eastern. Reckoning the cubit at 21 inches the proportions would be: Length, 626 feet; breadth, 87 feet,. inches; height, 62 feet,. inches; those of the Great Eastern being, length, 680; breadth, 83, height, 58."--_ S. C._ German writers state that in 1609 Peter Jansen built. vessel of the same proportions as the ark, only much smaller, with. length of 120 feet; width, 20 feet; and depth or height, 12 feet. It was found most convenient for stowage, containing one-third more freight than ordinary vessels of the same tonnage, though it was not adapted to great speed. Curious calculations have been made of the capacity of the ark, and it has...

CUBIT. The latest approximation gives Genesis 17:5 inches. But this is the "profane" cubit. The sacred cubit was probably about 25 inches....