The Construction of Noah’s Ark
God gave Noah the exact dimensions of the ark, and explicit directions in regard to the construction of it in every particular. It was three stories high, and the light they received was from a window in the top. The door was in the side. It was a building of great durability, which no wisdom of man could invent. God was the designer, and Noah his master-builder. After Noah had done all in his power to make every part of the work correct, it was impossible that it could of itself withstand the violence of the storm which God in his fierce anger was to bring upon the earth. The work of completing the building was a slow process. Every piece of timber was closely fitted, and every seam covered with pitch. All that men could do was done to make the work perfect; yet, after all, God alone could preserve the building from the angry, heaving billows, by his miraculous power.