Genesis 6:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Genesis 6:14 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 6:14 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 2:3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
- Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
- 1 Peter 3:20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).