[caltaxed]

"Christian Bible study questions if the reason to pitch the inside of the arc was to preserve it, at least for long enough"

Interior pitch makes sense for a preservative. The interior of the arc was probably a mess with all those animals and most likely seawater in the bilges. Thank you for the biblical clarification.

[Elsie]

Seawater?

I was RAIN (fresh water) and fountains of the deep (wells?)