Genesis 6:14
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
KJV
Fac tibi arcam de lignis lævigatis ; mansiunculas in arca facies, et bitumine linies intrinsecus et extrinsecus.
Vulgate
ποίησον οὖν σεαυτῷ κιβωτὸν ἐκ ξύλων τετραγώνων· νοσσιὰς ποιήσεις τὴν κιβωτόν, καὶ ἀσφαλτώσεις αὐτὴν ἔσωθεν καὶ ἔξωθεν τῇ ἀσφάλτῳ.
LXX
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
ASV
עֲשֵׂ֤ה לְ/ךָ֙ תֵּבַ֣ת עֲצֵי גֹ֔פֶר קִנִּ֖ים תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֶת הַ/תֵּבָ֑ה וְ/כָֽפַרְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֛/הּ מִ/בַּ֥יִת וּ/מִ/ח֖וּץ בַּ/כֹּֽפֶר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Typology
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man. Moses describes the dreadful corruption which provoked God to destroy the world by the flood. When it is said that God repented, this is spoken after the manner of men, for God is not subject to passions. Yet the expression teaches that sin is so hateful to God that he cannot look upon it without displeasure. Noah found grace in th…
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- Exod 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Exod 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Luke 17:27 — They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Matt 24:38 — For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,