Genesis 6:14 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 6:14

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Make thee an ark of Gopher wood,.... It is not called a ship, for it was not made for sailing to any distant parts, but an ark or chest, being like one, flat bottomed, and ridged and sloping upwards, and was made for floating on the waters for a little way.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God could have secured Noah by the ministration of angels, without putting him to any care, or pains, or trouble, himself; but he chose to employ him in making that which was to be the means of his preservation, both for the trial of his faith and obedience and to teach us that none shall be saved by Christ but those only that work out their salvation.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Make thee an ark - תבת tebath, a word which is used only to express this vessel, and that in which Moses was preserved, Exo 2:3, Exo 2:5. It signifies no more than our word vessel in its common acceptation - a hollow place capable of containing persons, goods, etc., without any particular reference to shape or form. Gopher wood - Some think the cedar is meant; others, the cypress.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עֲשֵׂ֤ה	'a.Seh	make	H6213 →
לְךָ֙	le.Kha	for <the> yourself
תֵּבַ֣ת	te.Vat	an ark of	H8392 →
עֲצֵי־	'a.tzei-	wood<s> of	H6086 →
גֹ֔פֶר	Go.fer	gopher	H1613 →
קִנִּ֖ים	ki.Nim	nests	H7064 →
תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה	ta.'a.Seh	you will make	H6213 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַתֵּבָ֑ה	ha.te.Vah	the ark	H8392 →
וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֥	ve.kha.far.Ta	and you will cover	H3722 →
אֹתָ֛הּ	'o.Tah	<obj.> it	H853 →
מִבַּ֥יִת	mi.Ba.yit	from inside	H1004 →
וּמִח֖וּץ	u.mi.Chutz	and from outside	H2351 →
בַּכֹּֽפֶר׃	ba.Ko.fer	with <the> pitch	H3724 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:7
  By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
- 2 Peter 2:5
  if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
- Genesis 6:3
  So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Genesis 6:5
  Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Genesis 8:18
  So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
Through
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.
leads to
- Luke 17:26–28
  Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- Romans 13:13–14
  Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Through
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…
leads to
- Exodus 1:22
  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

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Noah's Ark as a Type. MannaFest

The Hebrew for the pitch is kopher. Everywhere else the word floor glosses that same number, it means a ransom price. Exodus 30:12, Numbers 35:31-32, Psalm 49:7, Job 33:24, Proverbs 13:8. That is an observation about a word, not a claim that Genesis intends it.

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