“So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in
it and coat it with pitch
inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a
roof for it and finish the
ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 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.
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. You are to
bring into the ark two of
all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 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. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it
away as food for you and for
them."