Genesis 6:14 - Compare All Versions

Genesis 6:14-16 MSG (The Message)

“Build yourself a ship from teakwood. Make rooms in it. Coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it 450 feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof for it and put in a window eighteen inches from the top; put in a door on the side of the ship; and make three decks, lower, middle, and upper.

Genesis 6:14 KJV (King James Version)

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Genesis 6:14 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

Genesis 6:14 NCV (New Century Version)

Build a boat of cypress wood for yourself. Make rooms in it and cover it inside and outside with tar.

Genesis 6:14 ASV (American Standard Version)

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Genesis 6:14 NIV (New International Version)

So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 6:14 NKJV (New King James Version)

Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

Genesis 6:14 AMP (Amplified Bible)

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, compartments) and coat it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).

Genesis 6:14 NLT (New Living Translation)

“Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.

Genesis 6:14-15 TPT (The Passion Translation)

Build a boat for yourself—an ark of sturdy timber. And this is how you are to design it: make separate compartments within it, and seal it inside and out with thick tar. The length is to be 450 feet, its width 75 feet, and its height 45 feet.

Genesis 6:14 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.