Quotes about Cubit

Using the shorter cubit (18 inches), Noah's ark would have been about: • 450 feet (137 meters) by 75 feet (22.9 meters) by 45 feet (13.7 meters) Whereas using the longer cubit of about 20.4 inches, Noah's ark would have been about: • 510 feet (155 meters) long by 85 feet (25.9 meters) by 51 feet (15.5 meters)

He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.

Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak

It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.

And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.

At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.

Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

If we take ocean basins and bring them up and take mountain ranges and continents and bring them down to a level position, there is enough water to cover the earth 1.6 miles deep (2.57 km deep), so there is plenty of water on the earth for a global Flood. Yet there was only the need for the highest underwater peak during the Flood to be covered by 15 cubits (22.5 feet or ~6.8 meters based on the small cubit to 25.5 feet or ~7.8 meters based on the long cubit) per Genesis 7:20.

Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.