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Chapter 6

Genesis 6:15

RBT Translation:
And this one is whom you are making אֶת-her,251 three hundred ammah252 is the length of the Chest, fifty ammah her width, and thirty ammah her height;
Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
And this which thou shalt make it, three hundred cubits the length of the ark; fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.
LITV Translation:
And you shall make it this way: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
ESV Translation:
This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.

Footnotes

251

Hebrew וזה אשר תעשה אתה. There are two pronouns and a third person feminine "her" or 2nd masculine singular "you" in this sentence. The first word, this-one, is a masculine demonstrative pronoun, this one or that one -- he, hence, here, it(-self), now, of him, the one...the other (See Strong’s #2088).

Whom is the relative pronoun—which, whom. It does not mean how. אתה otah, can mean her or you. The same Hebrew phrase, This one is whom, can be found elsewhere, “And this is he whom Yahweh proclaims to her: ‘Our Just one.’” Jeremiah 33:16. Translators add “the name” to the clause to make it sound better, i.e. and this is the name by which she is called-out. But this is not accurate.

252

Strong’s #520, ammah. A mother and #519 a maidservant. 

A doubled form of am meaning mother. As a “cubit” measurement, that is, the forearm from elbow to finger tip. Prolonged from ‘em; properly, a mother. The Hebrews called this measurement a mother. Gesenius states it was always used metaphorically.

The word “cubit,” as it is always translated, is a Latin word. Sometimes ammah is in the singular, and sometimes it is ammōt, in the plural. A few times it is found in the dual, as in a pair, ammatayim. These distinctions are not insignificant, though repeatedly overlooked by translators.

This also would be the counterpart of the word Abba which is a doubled form of "father" found in the Aramaic texts referring to fathers in the plural in Dan. 2:23, 5:2, Ezra 4:15, 5:12 and in the New Testament in Mark 14:36, Rom. 8:15, and Gal. 4:6.