[[Image:MichelangelofloodScale-model-of-noah-ark.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''frame|"The Flood'replica of Noah's ark shown above is 1/75 scale. For comparison purposes, by Michaelangelo, detail from both the railroad stockcar and model of the sailing ship Pinta (one of Columbus' ships) are also at the same 1/75 scale model size."<ref>[[Sistine Chapel]], 1509http://www.biblestudy.org/biblepic/arksize.html Scale model replica of Noah's ark - Biblestudy.org]</ref>]]According to the book of Genesis, '''Noah's Ark''' (often referred to just as the 'or ''the Ark''') was built by a large seafaring vessel referred to in the [[Noahbook of Genesis]] on . It was built by Noah at the directions command and instruction of God , in response to preserve the evil of man at the time. God told Noah that he would destroy the earth with a flood, and only Noah, his family , and representatives of each of the animal [[baraminology|kinds]] from the [[Great Flood]]some animals would be saved.
== Design and construction Biblical account ===== Evil of Mankind ====== Judgment of God Pronounced ====== The Flood ===[[Image:Michelangeloflood.jpg|300px|''The Flood'', by Michaelangelo, detail from the [[Sistine Chapel]], 1509.]]
== The Ark ==
=== Design and construction ===
The Ark was constructed with [[pitched]] [[gopher wood]] and had three stories divided into multiple rooms, a window, and a door.<ref>''Genesis'' 6:14, 6:16</ref> The dimensions were three hundred [[cubit | cubits]] long by fifty cubits wide by thirty cubits high.<ref>''Genesis'' 6:15</ref> which equates to approximately 450 feet long, by 75 feet wide, by 45 feet high.
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