Verse 16
16. A window צהר . The Hebrew word here employed occurs nowhere else in the singular, but is frequently found in the dual, denoting the noontide . A different word is used in Genesis 8:6, to describe the window which Noah opened to send forth the raven . The making of that window is nowhere described .
In a cubit… finish it above Or, unto a cubit (within a cubit of the ridge) shalt thou finish it (the ark) from above, (on the roof, measuring from the eaves upward . ) Leave an aperture the whole length of the roof and a cubit wide, on each side of the ridge . This seems to be the best interpretation of this concise and obscure passage . This aperture, two cubits wide and running through the middle of the roof, was at once a skylight and a ventilator, being wholly or partially closed by some sort of a covering, perhaps a semi-transparent awning, (Genesis 8:13,) during the rain, and which Noah lifted up to get a wide view of the face of the earth. Directly beneath the ridge there was probably a wide space, or hall, the whole length and depth of the ark, into which the rooms or stalls opened on the right and left. It was thus a vast three-story building, with a hall through the middle from floor to ridge.
The door One large door for entrance and exit in the side.
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