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Noah's Ark: the guided tour as text
The 3D lab's guided tour as a story you can read, stop by stop, with the scripture behind each one. It works on any device, without 3D.
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God's command
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Building the ark
God told Noah to make an ark (Genesis 6:13–14), and Noah did all that God commanded him (6:22).
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Read Genesis 6:11–22; Hebrews 11:7
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The Ark
This is the finished ark: three hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high (Genesis 6:15).
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Read Genesis 6:9–22
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Hull shape
Here is its hull, shaped in this model like a long barge; the text gives its size, not its shape.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
Read Genesis 6:14–16; Exodus 2:1–4
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Pitch, inside and out
God told Noah to cover it with pitch, inside and out, to keep the water out (Genesis 6:14).
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Read Genesis 6:14
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Gopher wood
Under the pitch is gopher wood (Genesis 6:14); no one is sure which tree that was. Next: the roof.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Read Genesis 6:14
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Roof and covering
We're above the ark now, looking at its roof, which Noah later removed to look out (Genesis 8:13).
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Read Genesis 8:13–14
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The opening a cubit high
Just under the roof runs an opening a cubit high, for light and air (Genesis 6:16). Next: the door in the side.
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.
Read Genesis 6:16; Genesis 8:6–12
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The door in the side
God told Noah to set a door in the side of the ark (Genesis 6:16).
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.
Read Genesis 6:16
Into the ark
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The animals go in
Noah, his family and the animals went into the ark, two by two, male and female (Genesis 7:7–9). Next: the door.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Read Genesis 7:1–9
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The LORD shut him in
When all were in, the LORD shut him in (Genesis 7:16).
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Read Genesis 7:10–16
The flood
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The flood
The waters rose and lifted the ark, and it floated on the face of the waters (Genesis 7:17–18) for a hundred and fifty days (7:24).
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Read Genesis 7:11–24
A year inside: three decks
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Three decks
Inside are three decks, one above the other (Genesis 6:16), each about ten cubits high in this model.
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.
Read Genesis 6:16
A year inside: the lower deck
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Lower deck
This is the lower deck, in the dark near the waterline.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Read Genesis 6:16; Genesis 7:7–9
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Pens and cages
Pens line the decks, with room for the animals by their kinds (Genesis 6:19–20). Next: the water.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Read Genesis 6:19–21; Genesis 7:2–3
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Fresh water
Water for a year had to be kept somewhere; the text does not say how, so these stores are a guess. Next we go up a deck.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Read Genesis 7:11–12; Genesis 8:13–14
A year inside: the middle deck
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Middle deck
This is the middle deck, level with the door.
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.
Read Genesis 6:16
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Rooms (nests)
God told Noah to make rooms, literally 'nests', in the ark (Genesis 6:14).
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Read Genesis 6:14
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Food stores
Here is food stored for the family and the animals, as God commanded (Genesis 6:21). Next: how light and air got in.
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Read Genesis 6:21–22; Hebrews 11:7
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Light and air
Light and air came down from the opening under the roof, through the decks.
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.
Read Genesis 6:16
A year inside: the upper deck
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Upper deck
This is the upper deck, nearest the light.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Read Genesis 7:13
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Family quarters
Noah's family of eight may have lived up here for the year of the flood; where they lived is not told.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Read Genesis 7:13; 1 Peter 3:20–21; Matthew 24:37–39
Resting on Ararat
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Resting on the mountains of Ararat
God remembered Noah; the waters went down, and the ark came to rest high on the mountains of Ararat, a mountain land; the text names no single peak (Genesis 8:1–4). Next: the birds.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Read Genesis 8:1–5
The raven and the dove
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The raven and the dove
Noah opened the window he had made and sent out a raven, then a dove; the dove came back with an olive leaf (Genesis 8:6–12). Next: out of the ark.
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Read Genesis 8:6–12
Out of the ark
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Noah's altar
God told Noah to go out of the ark (Genesis 8:15–16), and Noah built an altar to the LORD (8:20).
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Read Genesis 8:15–22
The rainbow covenant
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The rainbow covenant
God set his rainbow in the clouds as the sign of his covenant: never again a flood to destroy the earth (Genesis 9:8–17). That's the end of the tour.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Read Genesis 9:8–17; Isaiah 54:9
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