How many cubits was Noah's Ark?

"The Bible indicates the original Ark was 300 cubits, using the Hebrew royal cubit that calculates in modern-day terms to 510 feet long," says Mark Looey, a co-founder of Answers in Genesis, the Christian ministry that built the attraction.
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How long and wide was Noah's ark?

The dimensions of Noah's ark in Genesis, chapter 6, are given in cubits (about 18-22 inches): length 300 cubits, breadth 50 cubits, and height 30 cubits. Taking the lower value of the cubit, this gives dimensions in feet of 450 x 75 x 45, which compares with 850 x 92 x 64 for the Titanic.
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What was the capacity of Noah's ark?

Knowing the volume of displaced sea water, and knowing that an object in water displaces its own weight, they crunched the numbers and found the total mass needed to displace that water. They subtracted the mass of an empty ark and found that the ark could hold 50,540,000 kg.
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How big was the ark compared to a cruise ship?

We know that the ark was bigger than a rowboat, but smaller than the Titanic. In fact, we know its exact size - it was 450 x 45 x 75 feet, with an approximate volume of 1,518,750 cubic feet.
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What kind of wood was Noah's ark made from?

As recorded in Genesis 6:14, Noah's ark was made from gopher wood; however, it is still unknown what wood species the gopher is although Woodmorappe (1996) has argued for teak.
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How Big is an Ancient Biblical Cubit?



How big was the ark in today's measurements?

"The Bible indicates the original Ark was 300 cubits, using the Hebrew royal cubit that calculates in modern-day terms to 510 feet long," says Mark Looey, a co-founder of Answers in Genesis, the Christian ministry that built the attraction.
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How tall is 6 cubits feet?

Ancient metrics

Some ancient texts say that Goliath stood at "four cubits and a span" –- which Chadwick says equals about 7.80 feet (2.38 meters) — while other ancient texts claim that he towered at "six cubits and a span" — a measurement equivalent to about 11.35 feet (3.46 m).
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How many feet is 2 cubits?

How many Feet are in a Cubit? The answer is one Cubit is equal to 1.5 Feet.
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What is 9 cubits in feet?

Most modern translations of the Bible substitute modern units. For example, the New English Bible converts the 'nine cubits' of Deuteronomy 3.11 (the length of the giant King Og's coffin) into 'nearly 14 feet', whereas the Good News Bible converts to 'four metres'.
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How many animals was on Noah's ark?

That brings our count up to a grand total of 3,858,920 animals aboard the ark—two of each species, except birds which number fourteen each.
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How many floors did Noah's ark have?

Noah's three-deck Ark represents this three-level Hebrew cosmos in miniature: heavens, earth, and waters beneath. In Genesis 1, God created the three-level world as a space in the midst of the waters for humanity; in Genesis 6–8, God refloods that space, saving only Noah, his family, and the animals in the Ark.
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Has Noahs ark been found?

In 2020, the Institute for Creation Research acknowledged that, despite many expeditions, Noah's Ark had not been found and is unlikely to be found. Many of the supposed findings and methods used in the search are regarded as pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology by geologists and archaeologists.
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Where is Noah's ark now?

Many Christians believe the mountain in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's ark, which the Bible says protected Noah, his family, and pairs of every animal species on Earth during a divine deluge that wiped out most of humanity.
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Who built the Noah in one piece?

Noah, also known as the "Ship of Promise" (約束の舟, Yakusoku no Fune?), is an enormous ship formerly sitting in the Fish-Man District, now resting at the Sea Forest, that was created during the Void Century by the people of Fish-Man Island.
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How long did it take Noah to build the ark encounter?

Noah's ark, according to Answers in Genesis, took between 55 to 75 years to build. Once it was constructed, Noah herded the world's animals, two by two, into the bowels of his vessel, where he tended to them until the flood receded.
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How many inches is a biblical span?

A "span" equals about 9 inches, or the width of an extended thumb and four fingers.
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How heavy was Goliath's spear?

So where can I get one just like it? I'm looking for one to match the description found in the Bible in I Samuel 17:7 "His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels." Six hundred shekels come out to be 15 lbs. Yes, I know how heavy that is.
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How big were Nephilim?

In 1 Enoch, they were "great giants, whose height was three hundred cubits." A Cubit being 18 inches (45 centimetres), this would make them 450 ft tall (137.16 metres).
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Who was the tallest man in the Bible?

Og and the Rephaim

Deuteronomy 3:11 declares that his "bedstead" (translated in some texts as "sarcophagus") of iron is "nine cubits in length and four cubits in width", which is 13.5 by 6 feet (4.1 by 1.8 m) according to the standard cubit of a man.
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How many snakes did Moses have on the Ark?

If Noah had to take two of every kind of animal on board the ark, he not only had to take two snakes on board, but two kinds of every snake. He not only had to take two cobras, two pythons, two boas, two rattlesnakes, etc., but he had to take two of every kind of cobra, python, boa, rattlesnake, etc.
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How long did Noah live?

At the age of 950 years, Noah, who shepherded God's creatures through the Flood, died.
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What is the height of Jesus?

He may have stood about 5-ft. -5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
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