_{The Story of Noah}

Now we go back to the ancient texts, those that are ancient Chaldean, or even older, notice how the language changes to be more like that of Genesis 1 than all of the rest, from the use of Heavenly Hosts as the far ancients used, the sentence structure and the phrases are just like those of the texts that I suspect could be pre-flood, so this is probably an immediate family member of Noah that wrote Genesis 6:9-16, while Genesis 17-19 goes from the ancient text’s plurality of God into Singular God, no longer heavenly Hosts but just a single person tense, back to Genesis 6:20-22, another text from far antiquity.  Whatever was the oldest text, I believe that the end of Genesis Chapter 5 went directly to Genesis 6:9 to 6:22, missing 6:17-19. Genesis 5 and Genesis 6:9-16,20-22 may have been the same book originally, along with Genesis 1 and various other texts between.

_{Genesis 6:9} This is the story ^[17] of Noah, Noah was a lawful man, without blemish in his genetic history, ^[18] and Noah’s conduct was alike that of the Heavenly Hosts. ^[19] ₁₀ Noah begat three sons, named Sham, Ham and Japheth. ₁₁ The surface of the land was corrupted before the Heavenly Hosts; the land was filled with violent oppression. ^[20] ₁₂ The Heavenly Hosts observed the land, asserting ^[21] that it was corrupted; all mankind had corrupted their ways upon the land.

[17] The KJV word “generations” is in a sense of history, or ancestry, although the word is usually implied for ancestry, I think all it means here is “Here’s his story”.  [18] Like point 17, the root here is genealogical and historical, past and present, as a man is also responsible for the actions of his family, from this we can be assured that the children of Noah had been properly instructed in their racial breeding. [19] KJV, “and Noah walked with God” walking was a sense of a life’s journey, thus “conduct”, also the word Yahweh is reverted to the older form Eloheem, Heavenly Hosts alike the older texts. [20] “Violence” is in my opinion, too weak for the intent, as we read in Genesis 9:5-6 “And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” KJV. This should give us a sense of the chaos this land descended into, where murderers were not punished, and evil went without justice, therefore fitting in with the tense of corruption used in the surrounding verses of Genesis 6. [21] The word “behold” is simply an assertion, like listen to me, or I think this, so “asserting” seems to best fit the intent.

_{Genesis 6:13} The Heavenly Hosts said to Noah, the end of all these men ^[22] has come to surface ^[23], the surface ^[23A] of this land is filled with villainy through them, they will be destroyed along with this land. ₁₄ Make a box ^[24] of cypress ^[25] wood; this ark will become your dwelling, ^[26] coat this home inside and outside with asphalt. ₁₅ This is how it will be constructed, the length of the ark 300 cubits; the width, 50 cubits; and the height, 30 cubits. ^[27] ₁₆ A window will be made for the ark, a cubit in width made on the top, and a door on the side, make a lower, second and third level.

[22] KJV, “flesh” although the literal translation, it implies humanity, Aryan or not. [23] & [23A] “Surface” is the proper translation here, in the case of point 23, it seems to be a sense of an appointed time, in the case of point 23A it seems to be a sense of an essence, or the face of, as it appears, or as one walks upon, for example, what you see visibly. [24] “Box” is used here because the word literally means a box, like a storage chest, something used for storage or transporting, not a boat in any sense. Like the Ark of the Covenant, never was the Holy Ark sent sailing away, nor was it made watertight, this word predates Hebrew, and the Chaldean word is a chest of coffer. Noah’s Ark was a rectangular watertight box. [25] The word means resinous wood, like the cedar, cypress or the fir, a wood resistant to water and insect damage, the word is rooted in “pitch” similar to asphalt, this is an educated guess, but the best one we can make for the term. It may also be that the sides of the ark were sticks and logs, thus “Gopher wood” KJV, totally inundated with asphalt. There is no positive way to determine if the meaning was Cypress timbers, or the big basket theory, the root of the word is “rising up” thus a secreting wood is possible, like resinous, possibly floating, thus watertight. The same word with a slight change of spelling means woven wood, the end letter of the actual word does more support the woven wood theory, the beginning letter of the word would support the timber theory, it is a word lost to antiquity. All we know is that it was built to float by instruction. [26] “Rooms shalt thou make in the ark” KJV, I disagree, the roots of the words support more of a sense of “this will be your home”. [27] The Cubit is the standard unit of measure, just like the mile today as compared to the shorter Roman mile, and the even shorter Kilometer, unfortunately, there was more than one cubit, and they shrunk over time. What has become known as the standard cubit is estimated to be around 17.5 to 18 inches in length, [American Standard Measurement] this is from the elbow to the fingertip of the middle finger, and so since all people are not the same height, we can assume that there was a standardized measure made for the cubit later in history. Then there was what is called the long cubit said to be the “common cubit plus a handbreadth”, now depending on whether your hand is open or closed, you go from the Egyptian cubit of 20.5 to 21.5 inches, [American Standard Measurement] to the other alternative Chaldean cubit of 24 to 27 inches, by the same index. The Roman cubit is said to be about 15 inches, and is known to be shorter, it was replaced by the foot, or 12 inches, during the Holy Roman Empire. What we can deduct is that the cubit shrunk throughout history, after all, the Egyptians also had the cubit as well as the long cubit, called the old cubit. Going by the History of the Cubit, and the fact that this passage has similar language to the oldest texts of Genesis, It can be assumed that it is the Long Cubit measurement. Ezekiel’s rod was said to be measured by the long cubit, this had been the measurement of the common cubit plus the handbreadth, the hand span was the closed fingers, and the handbreadth was open fingers, this is important to remember because this was most likely the Babylonian cubit. Babylon was the land of the Chaldeans, where Abraham came from, and this text is from around the time of Abraham, so therefore from the region of the Chaldeans, or earlier, so my estimate of a cubit as mentioned here is 24-27 inches, or 2 to 2 ¼ feet in length, as would be the measurement of that region to which we can best trace the origin of this passage. This would add to the size of the ark from Hebrew based measurements, so here is the final synopsis of the length of these spans. Length, 600+ feet in length, width, 100+ feet in length, height, 60+ feet in length. This ark had a floor capacity of 4 football fields per floor, it would have been truly massive, only surpassed in the industrial age by large naval vessels and ocean liners. Instead of the football field, it would be more accurate to compare it to the stadium. We are forced to use Ezekiel’s measurement, because it is the only example of a long cubit from Babylon, thus, Chaldean in origin, and this is allot larger than the Hebrew cubit, 1.5 times larger.