Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 6:16

16. A window shalt thou make to the Ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above , and the door of the Ark shalt thou set in the side thereof: With lower, second and third stories shalt thou make it.

Or a Light: Or Lights or Windows: The singular number being put for the plural, which is most frequent: Or it might be one great light or lanthorn, by which light might be derived and distributed into several rooms.

I[illegible: 1+ letters] (i. e.) Either 1. The Window, which was to be a cubit square. Or rather 2. The Ark, as appears 1. From the gender of the Hebrew affix which is feminine, and therefore agrees with the Ark, which in the Hebrew is of the feminine gender, not with the Window, which is Masculine. 2. From the nature of the thing, the Ark requiring a roof and that sloping, that the Rain might slide off from it, and not sink into it: For which end the roof in the middle was to be higher than the Ark by a cubit. And as the other parts of the Ark were made with exquisite contrivance, so doubtless this was not defective therein.

Whereof the highest story for Men and Birds; the second for provision for the brute Creatures; the lowest for the Beasts, under which was the sink of the Ark, which most probably was made sloping at the bottom; as all Ships and Boats are, where Serpents and such like Creatures might be put with their proper provisions.