Lexicon :: Strong's G2787 - kibōtos

“Make yourself an ark of gopher[fn] wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.

“But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives.

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.

On that same day Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, entered the ark, along with Noah’s wife and his three sons’ wives.

Two of every creature that has the breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark.

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself.

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures ​— ​everything that moves on the earth ​— ​came out of the ark by their families.

“and with every living creature that is with you ​— ​birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you ​— ​all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.

Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

“They are to make an ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[fn]

“Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.

“Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark.

“Hang the curtain under the clasps[fn] and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the curtain, so the curtain will make a separation for you between the holy place and the most holy place.

“You are to place the altar in front of the curtain by the ark of the testimony ​— ​in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony ​— ​where I will meet with you.

“With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,

“the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on top of it, and all the other furnishings of the tent ​— ​

“the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the curtain for the screen;

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[fn]

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.[fn]

He made the poles for carrying the table from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

“Put the ark of the testimony there and screen off the ark with the curtain.

“Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.

Moses took the testimony and placed it in the ark, and attached the poles to the ark. He set the mercy seat on top of the ark.

The LORD said to Moses, “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the curtain in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

Their duties involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the sanctuary utensils that were used with these, and the screen[fn] ​— ​and all the work relating to them.

“Whenever the camp is about to move on, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him that way.

They set out from the mountain of the LORD on a three-day journey with the ark of the LORD’s covenant traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say:

Arise, LORD!

Let your enemies be scattered,

and those who hate you flee from your presence.

But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.