Genesis 8

Genesis 8:16

16. A window shalt thou make to the ark. This account of the window has been puzzling to the commentators. The most probable idea is that it was, not a single window, but a window system. Gesenius says that the word means window course, or set of windows–a system of lighting–and translates: “A window system shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish them from above;” that is, they shall be placed a cubit below the decks or floors. It is quite possible that there was a window course to each story, a cubit below the ceiling or floor. Others have held that “in a cubit shalt thou finish it above” does not refer to the windows at all, but to the deck, or roof, which was to be raised a cubit in the center, so as to give a slope. From the general description we gather that the ark was a great building, over 500 feet long, 80 wide, and 60 high, with windows for the entrance of light near the roof, a door in the side, three stories high, constructed of resinous wood, and pitched within and without.