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were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and
he died.
18 Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two
years, and begot Enoch. After he begot Enoch, 6:15,16 The ark was not designed for beauty
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Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons or speed, but these dimensions provided
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and daughters. So all the days of Jared were extraordinary stability in the tumultuous
nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died. floodwaters.A cubit was about 18 inches long,
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot which made the ark 450 feet long, 75 feet
Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, wide, and 45 feet high. A gigantic box of that
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Enoch walked with God three hundred years, size would be very stable in the water and
and had sons and daughters. So all the days impossible to capsize.The volume of space in
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of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five the ark was 1.4 million cubic feet, equal to the
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years. And Enoch walked with God; and he capacity of 522 standard railroad box cars. It
was not, for God took him. had 3 stories,each 15 feet high;each deck was
25 Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty- equipped with rooms (literally,“nests”).“Pitch”
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seven years, and begot Lamech. After he begot was a resin substance to seal the seams and
cracks in the wood. The “window” may have
Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and actually been a low wall around the flat roof to
eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters. catch water for all on the ark.
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hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
28 Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two just man, perfect in his generations. Noah
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years, and had a son. And he called his name walked with God. And Noah begot three
Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us con- sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
cerning our work and the toil of our hands, 11 The earth also was corrupt before God,
because of the ground which the LORD has and the earth was filled with violence. So
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cursed.” After he begot Noah, Lamech lived God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was
five hundred and ninety-five years, and had corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way
sons and daughters. So all the days of on the earth.
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Lamech were seven hundred and seventy- 13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all
seven years; and he died. flesh has come before Me, for the earth is
32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and filled with violence through them; and behold,
Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth. I will destroy them with the earth. Make
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Now it came to pass, when men began to yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms
6 multiply on the face of the earth, and in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with
daughters were born to them, that the sons of pitch. And this is how you shall make it: The
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God saw the daughters of men, that they were length of the ark shall be three hundred cu-
beautiful; and they took wives for themselves bits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty
of all whom they chose. cubits. You shall make a window for the ark,
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3 And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not and you shall finish it to a cubit from above;
strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall
yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty make it with lower, second, and third decks.
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years.” There were giants on the earth in 17 And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwa-
those days, and also afterward, when the sons ters on the earth, to destroy from under heav-
of God came in to the daughters of men and en all flesh in which is the breath of life; every-
they bore children to them. Those were the thing that is on the earth shall die. But I will
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mighty men who were of old, men of renown. establish My covenant with you; and you shall
5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife,
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man was great in the earth, and that every in- and your sons’ wives with you. And of every
tent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of
continually. And the LORD was sorry that He every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with
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had made man on the earth, and He was you; they shall be male and female. Of the
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grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will birds after their kind, of animals after their
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destroy man whom I have created from the kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth
face of the earth, both man and beast, creep- after its kind, two of every kind will come to
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ing thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry you to keep them alive. And you shall take for
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that I have made them.” But Noah found yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall
grace in the eyes of the LORD. gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for
9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a you and for them.”
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