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Summary
- Genesis 6:15 gives the ark as 300 cubits long, 50 wide and 30 high, which at the common 18-inch cubit is 450 by 75 by 45 feet (137 by 23 by 14 meters).
- At the Egyptian royal cubit of about 20.6 inches the ark was 515 feet long, and the Ark Encounter, which used 20.4 inches, is 510 feet long.
- Whatever the cubit, the ark is six times as long as it is wide and ten times as long as it is high.
- The ark is a quarter longer than an NFL field, end line to end line, and about half as long as Titanic.
- It is 41 percent of the length of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and 38 percent of the cruise ship Icon of the Seas.
- The team studying the Durupınar formation gives it as 515 feet, and a sketch by David Fasold as 538 feet. As of mid-October 2026, the samples drilled there have no published laboratory results.
- Augustine read the ark’s proportions as those of a human body, a figure of Christ, and its side door as the wound in his side.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Genesis 6:3; 6:14–16; 6:19–20; 7:2–3, English Standard Version, BibleGateway.
- Ezekiel 40:5, English Standard Version, BibleGateway.
- “Cubit,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- H. Porter, “Cubit,” International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), Bible Tools; George Frederick Wright, “Ark of Noah,” International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), internationalstandardbible.com.
- Museo Egizio, Turin, gilded cubit rod S.8647 and folding cubit rod S.8391.
- Ark Encounter, “How Large Was the Ark?”, 25 July 2024; “How Long Is a Cubit?”; Chrystine Elle Hanus, “Building Noah’s ark”, Professional Roofing, October 2016 (opening date).
- NFL Rulebook, Rule 1, The Field.
- IFAB, Laws of the Game, Law 1: The Field of Play.
- RMS Titanic: Encyclopedia Titanica; RMS Titanic, Inc., Titanic facts.
- US Navy fact file, “Aircraft Carriers – CVN,” archived 24 December 2021.
- Meyer Turku, “Icon of the Seas floated out”.
- Lorence G. Collins, “A supposed cast of Noah’s ark in eastern Turkey” (2011), with David Fasold’s field sketch (“Total 538′”), Noah’s Ark Scans research page; Lorence G. Collins and David F. Fasold, “Bogus ‘Noah’s Ark’ from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure,” Journal of Geoscience Education 44 (1996), CSUN.
- Noah’s Ark Scans, “Evidence for Noah’s Ark”, for the 515-foot length.
- Newsweek, 24 September 2026, on the Durupınar formation; Christian Pure, “Has Noah’s Ark Been Found?”, for the 2026 drilling and its sources.
- S. W. Hong and others, “Safety Investigation of Noah’s Ark in a Seaway,” Journal of Creation 8, no. 1 (1994), reproduced by Answers in Genesis.
- Mike Schuler, “Ship Photo of The Day – Johan’s Ark”, gCaptain, 1 August 2012.
- Tim Lovett, “Thinking Outside the Box”, Answers in Genesis.
- Reasons to Believe on Noah’s flood.
- BioLogos, “How should we interpret the Genesis flood account?”
- Genesis 6 with notes, New American Bible, Revised Edition, USCCB.
- Augustine, City of God 15.26–27, tr. Marcus Dods, New Advent.
- Origen, Against Celsus 4.41, tr. Frederick Crombie, New Advent.
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