And, just eyeballing it here, that ark looked closer to four hundred cubits than the biblically prescribed three hundred.
But the design of the ark lends an element of drama to the film.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
The ark of God would bear them safely when all material help failed.
A bell, for instance—as well expect to find a bell here as in Noah's ark!
"No, it looks like one that came over in the ark," retorted Mrs. Glynn.
And once more: 'When the ark was removed a stone was there from the days of the first Prophets.
Where were the Tabernacle and the ark of God placed after the land was won?
Old English earc, mainly meaning Noah's but also the Ark of the Covenant, from Latin arca "large box, chest" (see arcane). Also borrowed in Old High German (arahha, Modern German Arche). From the Noachian sense comes extended meaning "place of refuge" (17c.). As the name of a type of ship or boat, from late 15c. In 19c. U.S., especially a large, flat-bottomed river boat to move produce, livestock, etc. to market.
