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Bible in Basic English

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

New American Standard Bible

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

King James Version

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Holman Bible

“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.

International Standard Version

So make yourself an ark out of cedar, constructing compartments in it, and cover it inside and out with tar.

A Conservative Version

Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Thou shall make rooms in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

American Standard Version

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Amplified

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, compartments) and coat it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).

Darby Translation

Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: with cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

Julia Smith Translation

Make to thee a box of pitch wood; nests shalt thou make in the ark, and cover it from within and from without with pitch.

King James 2000

Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark [with] rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.

Modern King James verseion

Make an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark. And you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Make thee an ark of pine tree, and make chambers in the ark, and pitch it, within and without, with pitch.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

The Emphasized Bible

Make for thee an ark of timbers of gopher, Grooms, shalt thou make with the ark, - and - thou shalt cover it within and without with pitch.

Webster

Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

World English Bible

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
thee an ark
תּבה 
Tebah 
ark
Usage: 28

of gopher
גּפר 
Gopher 
Usage: 1

קן 
Qen 
Usage: 13

in
את 
'eth 
against, with, in, him, me, upon
Usage: 994

the ark
תּבה 
Tebah 
ark
Usage: 28

it within
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

and without
חץ חוּץ 
Chuwts 
Usage: 164

Context Readings

God Warns Noah

13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth. 14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out. 15 And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

Cross References

Exodus 2:3

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

1 Peter 3:20

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

Matthew 24:38

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

Luke 17:27

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

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