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Genesis 6:16

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16You are to make a roof,H finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inchesI of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

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Footnotes

  1. HOr window, or hatch; uncertain
  2. I to a cubit

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

NLTNew Living Translation

Leave an 18-inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You must make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above. And as for the door of the ark, you must put it in its side. You must make it with a lower, second, and a third deck.

KJV 1900King James Version

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.