Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The undent interpreters, and many of the moderns, believe II. to be compounded of a preposition, relative, and adverb, and translate it P.: " For that he also Is flesh." Others derive it from a verb, and render it: "On aooount of their delinquency."

The smallest cubit being of eighteen inches, the dimensions of the ark must hare been vast, espe- cially if the sacred, or the Egyptian cubit, both of which were nearly twenty-two inches, were the mea- sure. It was 547 feet long, 02 feet broad, and 64 feet high. Dr. Arbnthnot calculates its capacity of storage at 81,062 tons.

The roof was to slope gently, so that the rise to the middle should be a cubit L. "Thou shalt finish It above, to be one cubit broad." " A place fer a door. M The noun is understood. The three stories were so arranged as to provide for order, cleanliness, and the proper management of the animals.