Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
14 Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.
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So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
15 Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
16 Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side.
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Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
17 I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,
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I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
18 but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
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But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
19 Take into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and of every kind of bird, in order to keep them alive.
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You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
21 Take along all kinds of food for you and for them."
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You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything that God commanded.
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Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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