• Gen 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.
• Gen 6:18 — But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
• Gen 7:1 — And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
• Gen 7:7 — And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
• Gen 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and N

2 Christian traditions affirm this interpretation.

• Patristic · Patristic
• Reformed · Reformed

7 passages from 6 historic works cite scripture this interpretation depends on.

• Commentary on Genesis · 2 passages
• Antiquities of the Jews · 1 passage
• Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) · 1 passage
• Homilies on the Gospel of John · 1 passage
• 1 Clement (Letter to the Corinthians) · 1 passage
• Against the Arians (Orationes contra Arianos) · 1 passage