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{{cquote|'''Genesis 6:14-16''' ''Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.  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.  A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.''}}

{{cquote|'''Genesis 6:14-16''' ''Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.  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.  A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.''}}

The Ark was large; in fact, until the launch of the British ship ''Great Eastern'' in 1858 the Ark was the largest moving object built by man.  The Hebrew cubit was a unit of measurement spanning the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, or about 18 inches<ref>http://worldwideflood.com/ark/noahs_cubit/cubit.htm</ref>, and based on this measurement the Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall.  However, Moses, the writer of ''Genesis'', was educated in the court of Egypt and was familiar with the royal cubit, which was 20.6 inches long<ref>http://worldwideflood.com/ark/noahs_cubit/cubit.htm</ref>, giving the Ark a maximum size of 618 x 103 x 61 feet<ref>https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j20_3/j20_3_71-77.pdf</ref>.

The Ark was large; in fact, until the launch of the British ship ''Great Eastern'' in 1858 the Ark was the largest moving object built by man.  The Hebrew cubit was a unit of measurement spanning the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, or about 18 inches<ref>http://worldwideflood.com/ark/noahs_cubit/cubit.htm</ref> (or slightly under 1/2 meter under the metric system), and based on this measurement the Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall.  However, Moses, the writer of ''Genesis'', was educated in the court of Egypt and was familiar with the royal cubit, which was 20.6 inches long<ref>http://worldwideflood.com/ark/noahs_cubit/cubit.htm</ref>, giving the Ark a maximum size of 618 x 103 x 61 feet<ref>https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j20_3/j20_3_71-77.pdf</ref>.

The Ark's construction consisted of "gopher wood", a material that is the subject of conjecture today.  Scholars have posited a number of possibilities for what gopher wood represents, including [[mahogany]], [[zebra wood]], [[cambriatic wood]], [[cypress]], and [[ebony]]<ref>[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/gopherwood.html What is “Gopher Wood”? ChristianAnswers.net]</ref>.  Strong's states that it is an unused root word (גֹּפֶר ''gôpher'') possibly related to either building something from wood, to house in, or a type of tree, leaning toward the cypress.  It may also be related to ''kâphar'' (כָּפַר), which in the ''Genesis'' account (ch. 6:14) specifies "pitch", leading scholars to speculate that the wood involved was from a resinous tree.

The Ark's construction consisted of "gopher wood", a material that is the subject of conjecture today.  Scholars have posited a number of possibilities for what gopher wood represents, including [[mahogany]], [[zebra wood]], [[cambriatic wood]], [[cypress]], and [[ebony]]<ref>[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/gopherwood.html What is “Gopher Wood”? ChristianAnswers.net]</ref>.  Strong's states that it is an unused root word (גֹּפֶר ''gôpher'') possibly related to either building something from wood, to house in, or a type of tree, leaning toward the cypress.  It may also be related to ''kâphar'' (כָּפַר), which in the ''Genesis'' account (ch. 6:14) specifies "pitch", leading scholars to speculate that the wood involved was from a resinous tree.