How Large Was Noahs Ark?
“The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.” (Genesis 6:15) Unlike many whimsical drawings that depict the Ark as some kind of overgrown houseboat with giraffes sticking out the top, the Ark was a huge vessel. Not until the late 1800s was a ship built that exceeded the capacity of Noah’s Ark. Measuring by cubits1, we know that the Ark must have been at least 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. In most of the Western world, wooden sailing ships never got much longer than 330 feet, yet the ancient Greeks built vessels at least this size 2,000 years earlier. China built huge wooden ships in the 1400s that may have been as large as the Ark. The biblical Ark, about as large as a wooden ship can be, is one of the largest wooden ships of all time—a midsized cargo ship by today’s standards. How Could Noah Build the Ark? The Bible does not tell us that Noah and his sons built the Ark by themselves. Noah cou
