What was the size of Noahs 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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What are the dimensions of Noah's Ark in the Bible?

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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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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How many animals could fit in the ark?

Scientists: Noah's Ark Would Have Floated With 70,000 Animals If Built By Dimensions In The Bible. A bookmark The letter F. An envelope.
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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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How many days and nights did it rain when Noah was on the ark?

Rains 40 days and 40 nights. Noah and family and animals enter Ark on same day as flood begins. Flood lasts 40 days and nights. Waters rise, all creatures destroyed.
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What kind of wood was Noah's Ark made from?

Gopher wood or gopherwood is a term used once in the Bible for the substance from which Noah's ark was built. Genesis 6:14 states that Noah was to build the Ark of gofer (Hebrew: גֹפֶר), more commonly transliterated as gopher wood, a word not otherwise known in the Bible or in Hebrew.
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Where is Noahs 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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Has Noah's 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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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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What can the size of Noah's Ark be compared to?

This means that, by their approximations, the ark would have been 144.6 meters long, 24.1 meters wide, and 14.46 meters tall—the size of a very small cargo ship. They went with cypress wood, though pine and cedar wood have similar densities.
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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. He left behind three sons, from whom the human race descended, according to the Bible.
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How long ago did Noah live?

He is on a marine archeological mission that might support the story of Noah. He said some 12,000 years ago, much of the world was covered in ice.
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What is the oldest flood story?

Perhaps the oldest flood story is one of the earliest stories known to man, The Epic of Gilgamesh. Recorded on 12 stone tablets this is among the first pieces of literature in history. According to the poem, Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king who reigned for 126 years.
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What year was the flood?

In this way, Bishop Ussher computed that the earth had been created in 4004 BC and that the flood occurred in 2350 BC which was henceforth accepted as the "traditional" biblical date,( though there is rival literal interpretation similarly inspired, setting the date at 2459 BC).
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Where is the Ark of the Covenant today 2021?

The Ark is currently kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion.
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How many trees did it take to build the Ark?

14,000: Number of trees it took to build the ark. 1,500: Number of people the ark can hold.
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Does gopher wood exist?

There are related species to be found in China and northern California, but botanists know of no similar wood anywhere else in the world." In that area of Florida, some farmers used gopher wood for fence posts because it is light, yet very strong, and outlasts other wood exposed to the elements.
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How many clean animals were on Noah's Ark?

(Interestingly, there's a conflicting Biblical description in the story of Noah that indicated God wanted Noah to take "seven pairs of clean animals... and a pair of the animals that are not clean... and seven pairs of the birds of the air also.")
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How long was a year in Noah's time?

In ancient times, twelve thirty-day months were used making a total of 360 days for the year. Abraham, used the 360-day year, which was known in Ur. The Genesis account of the flood in the days of Noah illustrated this 360-day year by recording the 150-day interval till the waters abated from the earth.
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What is the significance of 40 in the Bible?

Christianity similarly uses forty to designate important time periods. Moses stays on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights (Exodus 24:18). Before his temptation, Jesus fasted "forty days and forty nights" in the Judean desert (Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2).
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Which bird did Noah send first?

and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
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Where is Adam & Eve buried?

The cave of Machpelah, in the West Bank city of Hebron, is the burial place of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. According to Jewish mystical tradition, it's also the entrance to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are buried.
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