THE SIZE OF NOAH'S ARK: THE LENGTH OF A CUBIT

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. The Size Of  Noah’s Ark 

a) An argument against a universal flood is that no ark could contain so many species of animals as existed world-wide. Was Noah's ark too small?

b) Here is one of the arguments against such validity.

2. The Length Of A Cubit

a) The ark measured 300 x 50 x 30 cubits (Genesis 6:14-16). That's not far off half a million cubic cubits. Sounds impressive, but how big is it? Nobody knows the length of a "cubit". So how can anyone say with confidence, "The ark was too small..." when they can only guess at how big it was?

b) An ”educated“ guess for a "cubit" is about 45 cm or seventeen inches. That's based on a common-sense analysis of the numerous measurements (in cubits) of the tabernacle in Moses’s time, and the temple in Ezekiel’s visions. To apply that guess to Noah’s ark, an assumption is made that the cubit that Noah used was the same as the cubit that Moses used (Exodus 25-38, Ezekiel 40-43). 

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