Genesis 6:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 7:16 : 16 Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.
  • Gen 8:6 : 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
  • 2 Sam 6:16 : 16 As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him.
  • 2 Kgs 9:30 : 30 Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner, fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.
  • Ezek 41:16 : 16 as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Opposite the 35 feet that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him,‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you,‘I don’t know where you come from.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 6:14-15
    2 verses
    86%

    14Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

    15This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

  • Exod 25:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10The Ark of the Covenant“They are to make an ark of acacia wood– its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

    11You are to overlay it with pure gold– both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

  • Gen 8:6
    75%

    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

  • Exod 37:1
    75%

    1The Making of the Ark Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

  • Gen 6:17-20
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    73%

    17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

    18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

    19You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

    20Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

  • Ezek 41:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),

    17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

  • 1 Kgs 6:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4He made framed windows for the temple.

    5He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

    6The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

  • Exod 25:16
    71%

    16You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    71%

    19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.

  • Gen 7:16-18
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    16Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.

    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

  • Ezek 40:25
    69%

    25There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

  • 1 Kgs 7:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.

    5All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

  • 1 Kgs 6:16
    69%

    16He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

  • Exod 27:8
    69%

    8You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

  • Exod 26:16
    69%

    16Each frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide,

  • Gen 8:2
    69%

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • Gen 7:20
    69%

    20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

  • Ezek 40:12
    69%

    12There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.

  • Exod 40:3
    69%

    3You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

  • Gen 7:6
    68%

    6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

  • Exod 26:30
    68%

    30You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain.

  • Ezek 41:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet.

    3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.

  • Gen 8:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

    16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

  • Gen 1:6
    68%

    6God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

  • Gen 7:1
    68%

    1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

  • Exod 25:14
    68%

    14and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.

  • Ezek 42:3
    68%

    3Opposite the 35 feet that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8
    67%

    8The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.

  • 1 Kgs 6:31
    67%

    31He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided.