12. God saw that the earth was corrupt, because all creatures behaved corruptly on the earth.
13. God said to Noah, “The end has come for all creatures, since they have filled the earth with violence. I am now about to destroy them along with the earth,
14. so make a wooden ark. Make the ark with nesting places and cover it inside and out with tar.
15. This is how you should make it: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
16. Make a roof for the ark and complete it one foot from the top. Put a door in its side. In the hold below, make the second and third decks.
17. "I am now bringing the floodwaters over the earth to destroy everything under the sky that breathes. Everything on earth is about to take its last breath.
18. But I will set up my covenant with you. You will go into the ark together with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives.