Genesis 6:14

Modern

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Traditional

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

Literal

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark and you shall cover it inside and outside with a covering.

Latin

Fac tibi arcam de lignis lævigatis; mansiunculas in arca facies, et bitumine linies intrinsecus et extrinsecus.

Hebrew

English

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

ark: This was a long rectangular boat built for survival, not navigation. The Hebrew word tebah is the same for the basket that carried baby Moses on the Nile River (Exodus 2:3, 5).
gopher wood: It is not clear what kind of wood this was. It may have come from a conifer (a tree like cypress).

Theme notes and profiles

1 Peter 3:20
…who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
Luke 17:27
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Matthew 24:38
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.