'Ark' in the Bible
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.
But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.
Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.
And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,
But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.
Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.
And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.