Genesis 6:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.”

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BSBPD

“And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and this <FI>is<Fi> that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits <FI>is<Fi> the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 6:15 — 2 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 7:20The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
  2. Deuteronomy 3:11(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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