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The bi est questions
posed by skeptics is, “How
did Noah get a the animals
on the ark? It would not The Bible does give
have bn big enough.” us some details
about the ark’s
construction. The
ark itself had thr
decks and
aording to
Genesis 6:15 the ark
measured 300 x 50
x 30 cubits which is
aroximately 459 x
75 x 44 ft, or 1.54
mi ion cubic ft.
This is about the same size as 340
semitrailers which would be six
lanes wide and a half mile long.
In Genesis 7:2-3 God coanded Noah to
take seven pairs of the clean animals
(presumably for sacrifice) and a pair
each of the unclean animals.
In the original Hebrew, the word for
“beast” and “cale” in these paages is the
same: behemah, and it refers to land
vertebrate animals in general.
The word for “crping
things” is remes, which has
several dierent meanings in
Scripture, but here it
probably refers to reptiles.
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