Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Timber planks. Hebrew, "gopher wood "which is no where else mentioned in Scripture. It was probably a sort of wood full of rosin, and being besmeared with something like our pitch, was capable of resisting the fury of the ensuing tremendous storm, for a length of time. (Calmet; Haydock)
Rooms to separate the birds, various animals, provisions
Pitch, literally: "besmear it with bitumen "which has a very strong smell, able to counteract the disagreeable odours arising from beasts confined. (Menochius)
It might be mixed with some other ingredients, naphtha, pitch (Calmet)
