And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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And moves along the ground will come to you and 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. Verse 22. And Noah did everything just as God commanded him. You don't think God didn't know that when he was choosing him? I'm choosing Noah because Noah is going to do everything I command him to do. And my question to you today is, are you building what God has asked you to build? Because it may not be an ark, but it might be a family. It may not be an ark, but it might be a business. It may not be an ark, but it might be a church. It may not be an ark, but it might be something that you know God's been speaking to your spirit. I've called you to build, and I'm going to do everything the Lord has commanded me to do. God's favor rests on those that trust him and obey him, and Noah did everything. Noah completed the Ikea project, and he went and got all that material, and he built, The Lord told Noah to build him an archie, archie. …
… Make rooms in it. And then in verse 15, and this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it. The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits. The breadth of it, 50 cubits. And the height of it, 30 cubits. Friend, there are 3 million cubic feet of space in the ark. and this ship was sufficient for all that would come aboard. He said make rooms in the ark. Now come up close and I want to tell you something else. Not only is this ship secure, but this ship is sufficient. And I'm going to tell you today that God sent me here to tell you there's room on that ark for you. He's made a room for you. There is room at the cross for you. Thank God for the sufficiency of this boat. Then the next thing I want you to notice is the shape of it. Look again, if you will, in verse 15. He speaks of the length. He speaks of the width. …
Doctrine.—We should be willing to engage in and go through great undertakings, in order to our own salvation. The building of the ark, which was enjoined upon Noah, that he and his family might be saved, was a great undertaking: the ark was a building of vast size; the length of it being three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A cubit, till of late, was by learned men reckoned to be equal to a foot and a half of our measure. But lately some learned men of our nation have travelled into Egypt, and other ancient countries, and have measured some ancient buildings there, which are of several thousand years standing, and of which ancient histories give us the dimensions in cubits; particularly the pyramids of Egypt, which are standing entire at this day. By measuring these, and by comparing the measure in feet with the ancient accounts of their measure in cubits, a cubit is found to be almost two and twenty inches. Therefore learned men more lately reckon a cubit much larger than they did formerly. So that the ark reckoned so much larger every way, will appear to be almost of double the bulk which was formerly ascribed to it. According to this computation of the cubit, it was more than five hundred and fifty feet long, about ninety feet broad, and about fifty feet in height. …