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HISTORIA MOSIS, de Arca Noë; ex capite sexto libri Geneseos. Fac tibi arcam de lignis levigatis; mansiunculas in arca facies, et bitumine linies intrinsecus et extrinsecus. Et sic facies eam: Trecentorum cubitorum erit longitudo arcae, quinquaginta cubitorum latitudo, et triginta cubitorum altitudo illius. Fenestram in arca facies, et in cubito consummabis summitatem eius; ostium autem arcae pones ex latere; deorsum cenacula et tristega facies in ea.
THE NARRATIVE OF MOSES, on the Ark of Noah; from the sixth chapter of the book of Genesis. Make thee an ark of planed timber; thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with bitumen. And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it; and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side; with lower, middle, and third stories shalt thou make it.1
Translator’s notes
- The Scripture passage prefixed to Book X: Genesis 6:14–16 (Vulgate). ↩