Genesis 6:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Genesis 6:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Section VI - The Deluge - XXIII. The Ark 9. דור dôr “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Flood. This section has been very skilfully composed from both J and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5-8 and Genesis 6:12 f.; Genesis 7:7-9 and Genesis 7:13-16 ; Genesis 7:...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cubit. The latest approximation gives Genesis 17:5 inches. But this is the "profane" cubit. The sacred cubit was probably about 25 inches.

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• Genesis 6:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Thou shalt make - t...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 the f...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Flood This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the divine purposes for men might be carried out. T...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Cubits. — The cubit is the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. As, further, it was regarded as one-fourth of a man’s height, we may safely compute it at eighteen inche...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Noah Builds the Ark Genesis 6:9-22 Human sin had reached an awful climax. Sooner or later its results must have swept the human race from the earth, as smallpox will slay every native on some i...

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• Genesis 6:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting i...

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• Genesis 6:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And this [is the fashion] which thou shall make it of ,.... The form and size of it, its length, breadth, and height, as follows: the length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth...

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• Genesis 6:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in the corrupt mix...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Prediction of the Deluge. B. C. 2448.       13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This is the fashion, or, this is the measure, or the manner according to which thou shalt make it; and it was a just and regular proportion, the length being six times more than the breadth, an...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Command to Prepare for the Flood ( Genesis 6:14-22 ) Genesis 6:14-16 ‘Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms (or alternatively ‘reeds' - which involves the same consonants, but dif...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 6:14 . Gopher wood.] Probably, “cypress” (Conant, Davies); “pitch-trees, resinous trees” (Gesenius); “a hard, strong tree, precise kind unknown” (Fürst).— Genesis 6:18...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Gen. 6-7 A long period elapsed between the commencement of the building of the ark and the actual flood. During that period we notice: (1) the strength of Noah's faith. God has told him of a deluge...

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• Genesis 6:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 6:2 . Sons of God. Some understand this expression of Seth's sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for their being called the daughters of men. Others unders...

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• Genesis 6:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  § 4. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH ( CH . 6:9-9:29). EXPOSITION Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah . "Novi capitis initium = "haec est historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. Genesi...

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• Genesis 6:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Command to Build and Equip the Ark

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• Genesis 6:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  cubits. Genesis 7:20 Deuteronomy 3:11

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• Genesis 6:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Noah and the Ark Genesis 6:11-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a verse in the New Testament which reads: "As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." 1. One cannot...

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