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It was bigger than you probably think! Gen. 6:16 gives the dimensions as 300 cubits long x 50 cubits wide x 30 cubits high. That's at least 450' long x 75' wide x 45' high. Its three decks could have had 15 feet of headroom each, with a volume of at least 550 railroad boxcars.

How many animals needed to be on board? Estimates run about 16,000 to 20,000. There were two each of "unclean" animals, and either seven individuals or seven pairs of "clean" animals. Average size: that of a sheep, and many were smaller than a kitten. Only land animals needed to be included. And he needed 2 of every "kind" (Hebrew: "bara") of creature. (Wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, fennets, dingos and dogs are likely only one or two "kinds" of animals, since most or all can freely interbreed.)

Did dinosaurs get on board? Yes! God ordered Noah to take at least two of every "kind" of animal. He needed young adults, not the oldest and largest. After the Flood, they became "monsters" and "dragons" known now from legends around the world, and likely were the "behemoth" and "leviathan" in Scripture. They were painted on cave walls in France and on canyon walls in the American Southwest; they are depicted in pottery figurines unearthed in Peru, were carved in the wall of a temple in Cambodia, and on a tomb in an English church, and it sure looks like dinosaur and human tracks in the same rocks in different places around the world.

More info is available on the materials in our library-by-mail. Here's a website devoted to answering questions about Noah's Ark. There are many excellent articles, at www.answersingenesis.org. (Here--I've already run a query for you on "ark".) To look up the Biblical story of the Flood, you may use the form below. It will take you to another web site, in a new window.

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