I noticed some discrepancies between the "Shipwrights Play: The Building of the Ark" and the Bible concerning the measurements of the Ark. In the play God says, "Five hundred feet it shall be long, and eighty wide, all for your bliss. The height, of fifty feet along. Be careful to remember this." However in the Bible it states that god said, "This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high."
I think the reason that the dimensions were changed from the Bible for the play was to keep with the Iambic octameter. For if the dimensions were to be taken from the Bible as written it would have ruined the rhythm in which the lines were written. Honestly they were not changed enough to probably really draw any attention from the audience, it is only noticeable when analyzing the two side by side.
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