Story of Noah in “Scripture”

The story of Noah from “Scripture”, Torah and Bible, in NIV Genesis 6, 7, 8 & 9:

NIV Genesis 6:

Wickedness in the World

6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. ³Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with^[a] humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
⁵The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. ⁶The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. ⁷So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” ⁸But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
NIV Genesis 6

Noah and the Flood

⁹This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. ¹⁰Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
¹¹Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. ¹²God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ¹³So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. ¹⁴So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. ¹⁵This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. ¹⁶Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. ¹⁷I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. ¹⁸But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁹You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. ²⁰Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. ²¹You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
²²Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
NIV Genesis 6

NIV Genesis 7

7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. ²Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, ³and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. ⁴Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
⁵And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
⁶Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. ¹²And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
¹³On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. ¹⁴They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. ¹⁵Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. ¹⁶The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
¹⁷For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. ²⁰The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. ²¹Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²²Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
²⁴The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
NIV Genesis 7

NIV Genesis 8

8 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. ²Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. ³The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, ⁴and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
⁶After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark ⁷and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. ⁸Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. ⁹But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. ¹⁰He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. ¹²He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
¹³By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. ¹⁴By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
¹⁵Then God said to Noah, ¹⁶“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. ¹⁷Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
¹⁸So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. ¹⁹All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. ²¹The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
²²“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
NIV Genesis 8

NIV Genesis 9

God’s Covenant With Noah

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. ²The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. ³Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
⁴“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. ⁵And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
⁶“Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
⁷As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
⁸Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ⁹“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. ¹¹I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
¹²And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: ¹³I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
¹⁷So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
NIV Genesis 9

The Sons of Noah

¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹⁹These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
²⁰Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. ²¹When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. ²³But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵he said,
“Cursed be Canaan!
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.”
²⁶He also said,
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!
    May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
²⁷May God extend Japheth’s territory;
    may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
    and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
²⁸After the flood Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
NIV Genesis 9

Stories of Noah in Koran

The repetitions of the stories of Noah, by Muhammad.

Story of Noah

7:59 We had certainly sent Noah to his people, and he said, “O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous Day.” [Note: missing end quote]
60 Said the eminent among his people, “Indeed, we see you in clear error.”
61 [Noah] said, “O my people, there is not error in me, but I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds.” 62 I convey to you the messages of my Lord and advise you; and I know from Allah what you do not know. 63 Then do you wonder that there has come to you a reminder from your Lord through a man from among you, that he may warn you and that you may fear Allah so you might receive mercy.”
64 But they denied him, so We saved him and those who were with him in the ship. And We drowned those who denied Our signs. Indeed, they were a blind people.
Koran 7:59-64

Story of Noah

10:71 And recite to them the news of Noah, when he said to his people, “O my people, if my residence and my reminding of the signs of Allah has become burdensome upon you – then I have relied upon Allah. So resolve upon your plan and [call upon] your associates. Then let not your plan be obscure to you. Then carry it out upon me and do not give me respite. 72 And if you turn away [from my advice] then no payment have I asked of you. My reward is only from Allah, and I have been commanded to be of the Muslims.”
73 And they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship and made them successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. Then see how was the end of those who were warned.
Koran 10:71-73

Story of Noah

11:25 And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, [saying], “Indeed, I am to you a clear warner 26 That you not worship except Allah. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a painful day.”
27 So the eminent among those who disbelieved from his people said, “We do not see you but as a man like ourselves, and we do not see you followed except by those who are the lowest of us [and] at first suggestion. And we do not see in you over us any merit; rather, we think you are liars.”
28 He said, “O my people have you considered: if I should be upon clear evidence from my Lord while He has given me mercy from Himself but it has been made unapparent to you, should we force it upon you while you are averse to it? 29 And O my people, I ask not of you for it any wealth. My reward is not but from Allah. And I am not one to drive away those who have believed. Indeed, they will meet their Lord, but I see that you are a people behaving ignorantly. 30 And O my people, who would protect me from Allah if I drove them away? Then will you not be reminded? 31 And I do not tell you that I have the depositories [containing the provision] of Allah or that I know the unseen, nor do I tell you that I am an angel, nor do I say of those upon whom your eyes look down that Allah will never grant them any good. Allah is most knowing of what is within their souls. Indeed, I would then be among the wrongdoers.”
32 They said, “O Noah, you have disputed us and been frequent in dispute of us. So bring us what you threaten us, if you should be of the truthful.”
33 He said, “Allah will only bring it to you if He wills, and you will not cause [Him] failure. 34 And my advice will not benefit you – although I wished to advise you – If Allah should intend to put you in error. He is your Lord, and to Him you will be returned.”
35 Or do they say [about Prophet Muhammad], “He invented it”? Say, “If I have invented it, then upon me is [the consequence of] my crime; but I am innocent of what [crimes] you commit.”
36 And it was revealed to Noah that, “No one will believe from your people except those who have already believed, so do not be distressed by what they have been doing. 37 And construct the ship under Our observation and Our inspiration and do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are [to be] drowned.” 38 And he constructed the ship, and whenever an assembly of the eminent of his people passed by him, they ridiculed him. He said, “If you ridicule us, then we will ridicule you just as you ridicule. 39 And you are going to know who will get a punishment that will disgrace him [on earth] and upon whom will descend an enduring punishment [in the Hereafter].”
40 [So it was], until when Our command came and the oven overflowed, We said, “Load upon the ship of each [creature] two mates and your family, except those about whom the word has preceded, and [include] whoever has believed.” But none had believed with him, except a few.
41 And [Noah] said, “Embark therein; in the name of Allah is its course and its anchorage. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful.” 42 And it sailed with them through waves like mountains, and Noah called to his son who was apart [from them], “O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers.”
43 [But] he said, “I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water.” [Noah] said, “There is no protector today from the decree of Allah, except for whom He gives mercy.” And the waves came between them, and he was among the drowned.
44 And it was said, “O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold [your rain].” And the water subsided, and the matter was accomplished, and the ship came to rest on the [mountain of] Judiyy. And it was said, “Away with the wrongdoing people.”
45 And Noah called to his Lord and said, “My Lord, indeed my son is of my family; and indeed, Your promise is true; and You are the most just of judges!”
46 He said, “O Noah, indeed he is not of your family; indeed, he is [one whose] work was other than righteous, so ask Me not for that about which you have no knowledge. Indeed, I advise you, lest you be among the ignorant.”
47 [Noah] said, “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from asking that of which I have no knowledge. And unless You forgive me and have mercy upon me, I will be among the losers.”
48 It was said, “O Noah, disembark in security from Us and blessings upon you and upon nations [descending] from those with you. But other nations [of them] We will grant enjoyment; then there will touch them from Us a painful punishment.”
49 That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you, [O Muhammad]. You knew it not, neither you nor your people, before this. So be patient; indeed, the [best] outcome is for the righteous.
Koran 11:25-49

Story of Noah

23:23 And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, and he said, “O my people, worship Allah ; you have no deity other than Him; then will you not fear Him?”
24 But the eminent among those who disbelieved from his people said, “This is not but a man like yourselves who wishes to take precedence over you; and if Allah had willed [to send a messenger], He would have sent down angels. We have not heard of this among our forefathers. 25 He is not but a man possessed with madness, so wait concerning him for a time.”
26 [Noah] said, “My Lord, support me because they have denied me.”
27 So We inspired to him, “Construct the ship under Our observation, and Our inspiration, and when Our command comes and the oven overflows, put into the ship from each [creature] two mates and your family, except those for whom the decree [of destruction] has proceeded. And do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are to be drowned. 28 And when you have boarded the ship, you and those with you, then say, ‘Praise to Allah who has saved us from the wrongdoing people.’ 29 And say, ‘My Lord, let me land at a blessed landing place, and You are the best to accommodate [us].'” 30 Indeed in that are signs, and indeed, We are ever testing [Our servants].
Koran 23:23-30

Story of Noah

26:105 The people of Noah denied the messengers 106 When their brother Noah said to them, “Will you not fear Allah? 107 Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger. 108 So fear Allah and obey me. 109 And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds. 110 So fear Allah and obey me.”
111 They said, “Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?”
112 He said, “And what is my knowledge of what they used to do? 113 Their account is only upon my Lord, if you [could] perceive. 114 And I am not one to drive away the believers. 115 I am only a clear warner.”
116 They said, “If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned.”
117 He said, “My Lord, indeed my people have denied me. 118 Then judge between me and them with decisive judgement and save me and those with me of the believers.”
119 So We saved him and those with him in the laden ship. 120 Then We drowned thereafter the remaining ones. 121 Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. 122 And indeed, your Lord – He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
Koran 26:105-122

Story of Noah

54:9 The people of Noah denied before them, and they denied Our servant and said, “A madman,” and he was repelled.
10 So he invoked his Lord, “Indeed, I am overpowered, so help.”
11 Then We opened the gates of the heaven with rain pouring down 12 And caused the earth to burst with springs, and the waters met for a matter already predestined. 13 And We carried him on a [construction of] planks and nails, 14 Sailing under Our observation as reward for he who had been denied. 15 And We left it as a sign, so is there any who will remember? 16 And how [severe] were My punishment and warning. 17 And We have certainly made the Qur’an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?
Koran 54:9-17

Story of Noah

71:1 Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], “Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment.”
2 He said, “O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner, 3 [Saying], ‘Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me 4 Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.'”
5 He said, “My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day. 6 But my invitation increased them not except in flight. 7 And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.
8 Then I invited them publicly. 9 Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly 10 And said, ‘Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. 11 He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers 12 And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.
13 What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur 14 While He has created you in stages?
15 Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers 16 And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp? 17 And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth. 18 Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction. 19 And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse 20 That you may follow therein roads of passage.’ “
21 Noah said, “My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss. 22 And they conspired an immense conspiracy. 23 And said, ‘Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa’ or Yaghuth and Ya’uq and Nasr. 24 And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error.”
25 Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers. 26 And Noah said, “My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant. 27 And Noah said, “My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant. 28 My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction.”
Koran 71:1-28

The Repetitions of Stories of Noah

Reminder of Noah

21:76 And [mention] Noah, when he called [to Allah ] before [that time], so We responded to him and saved him and his family from the great flood. 77 And We saved him from the people who denied Our signs. Indeed, they were a people of evil, so We drowned them, all together.
Koran 21:76-77

Reminder of Noah

And the people of Noah – when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them for mankind a sign. And We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.
Koran 25:37

Reminder of Noah

29:14 And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers. 15 But We saved him and the companions of the ship, and We made it a sign for the worlds.
Koran 29:14-15

Reminder of Noah

36:41 And a sign for them is that We carried their forefathers in a laden ship.
42 And We created for them from the likes of it that which they ride.
43 And if We should will, We could drown them; then no one responding to a cry would there be for them, nor would they be saved 44 Except as a mercy from Us and provision for a time.
Koran 36:41-44

Reminder of Noah

37:75 And Noah had certainly called Us, and [We are] the best of responders. 76 And We saved him and his family from the great affliction. 77 And We made his descendants those remaining [on the earth] 78 And left for him [favorable mention] among later generations: 79 “Peace upon Noah among the worlds.” 80 Indeed, We thus reward the doers of good. 81 Indeed, he was of Our believing servants. 82 Then We drowned the others [i.e., disbelievers]
Koran 37:75-82

Reminder of Noah

51:46 And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient.
Koran 51:46

Reminder of Noah

53:52 And the people of Noah before. Indeed, it was they who were [even] more unjust and oppressing.
Koran 53:52

Reminder of Noah

69:11 Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried your ancestors in the sailing ship 12 That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would be conscious of it.
Koran 69:11-12