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.”

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BSBPD

“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)
KJVPD

“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
ASVPD

“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
YLTPD

“`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 Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 6:14 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).

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