Genesis 6:16 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 6:16

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis (420)

(Verse 16.) Assembling, you shall make an ark, and you shall finish it with a cubit from above. As for the reason why it says, assembling, you shall make an ark, in Hebrew it has, 'you shall make the middle of the ark,' which Symmachus interpreted more clearly, saying 'transparent,' that is, making the ark clear, intending for a window to be understood.

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)

A window shalt thou make - What this was cannot be absolutely ascertained. The original word צהר tsohar signifies clear or bright; the Septuagint translate it by επωυναγων, “collecting, thou shalt make the ark,” which plainly shows they did not understand the word as signifying any kind of window or light. Symmacbus translates it διαφανες, a transparency; and Aquila, μεσημβρινον, the noon. Jonathan ben Uzziel supposes that it was a precious luminous stone which Noah, by Divine command, brought from the river Pison.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
צֹ֣הַר׀	Tzo.har	a roof	H6672 →
תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה	ta.'a.Seh	you will make	H6213 →
לַתֵּבָ֗ה	la.te.Vah	for the ark	H8392 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
אַמָּה֙	'a.Mah	a cubit	H520 →
תְּכַלֶ֣נָּה	te.kha.Le.nah	you will finish it	H3615 →
מִלְמַ֔עְלָה	mil.Ma'.lah	from to above <towards>	H4605 →
וּפֶ֥תַח	u.Fe.tach	and [the] entrance of	H6607 →
הַתֵּבָ֖ה	ha.te.Vah	the ark	H8392 →
בְּצִדָּ֣הּ	be.tzi.Dah	in side its	H6654 →
תָּשִׂ֑ים	ta.Sim	you will put	H7760 →
תַּחְתִּיִּ֛ם	tach.ti.Yim	lower [decks]	H8482 →
שְׁנִיִּ֥ם	she.ni.Yim	second [decks]	H8145 →
וּשְׁלִשִׁ֖ים	u.she.li.Shim	and third [decks]	H7992 →
תַּֽעֲשֶֽׂהָ׃	Ta.'a.Se.ha	you will make it	H6213 →

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The walk

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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
Genesis 7:16
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
leads to
- Luke 13:25
  After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where…
- Matthew 25:10
  But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
Through
2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29
  As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him…
- 2 Samuel 3:14
  Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
Through
Luke 13:25
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where…
leads to
- Matthew 25:10–12
  But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
- Luke 13:27
  And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
- Matthew 7:21–23
  Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.