¹⁴ So make yourself an ark of cypress^[a] wood;^(A) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch^(B) inside and out. ¹⁵ This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.^{[b] 16} Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit^[c] high all around.^[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,^(A) so that we may make a name^(B) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered^(C) over the face of the whole earth.”^(D)

⁶ So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him.

⁷ He took six hundred of the best chariots,^(A) along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.