Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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(2.) He must make it three stories high within.
(3.) He must divide it into cabins, with partitions, places fitted for the several sorts of creatures, so as to lose no room.
(4.) Exact dimensions were given him, that he might make it proportionable, and might have room enough in it to answer the intention and no more. Note, Those that work for God must take their measures from him and carefully observe them. Note, further, It is fit that he who appoints us our habitation should fix the bounds and limits of it.
(5.) He must pitch it within and without--without, to shed off the rain, and to prevent the water from soaking in--within, to take away the bad smell of the beasts when kept close. Observe, God does not bid him paint it, but pitch it. If God gives us habitations that are safe, and warm, and wholesome, we are bound to be thankful, though they are not magnificent or nice.
(6.) He must make a little window towards the top, to let in light, and (some think) that through that window he might behold the desolations to be made in the earth.
(7.) He must make a door in the side of it, by which to go in and out.
Here it appears indeed that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God's favour to him was plainly intimated in what he said of him, Ge 6:8-10, where his name is mentioned five times in five lines, when once might have served to make the sense clear, as if the Holy Ghost took a pleasure in perpetuating his memory; but it appears much more in what he says to him in these verses--the informations and instructions here given him.
God here makes Noah the man of his counsel, communicating to him his purpose to destroy this wicked world by water. As,