14 Get some good timber and build a boat. Put rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.
15 Make it one hundred and thirty-three metres long, twenty-two metres wide, and thirteen metres high.
16 Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about forty-four centimetres between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three storeys high and put a door on one side.
17 I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.
18 But I solemnly promise that you, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law will be kept safe in the boat.
19-20 Bring into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, as well as a male and a female of every reptile. I don't want them to be destroyed.
21 Store up enough food both for yourself and for them.