Noah was the subject of much elaboration in the literature of later Abrahamic religions, including the Quran (Surahs 71, 7, 1, and 21). The primary account of Noah in the Bible is in the Book of Genesis. Noah was the tenth of the pre-flood (antediluvian) Patriarchs. His father was Lamech and his mother is not named in the biblical accounts. When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth (). The Genesis flood narrative makes up chapters 6–9 in the Book of Genesis, in the Bible. The narrative, one of many flood myths found
Book of Noah En. 106-107 On these chapters may have followed Eth. En. 6-11., 65-69:25, 60, 41:3-8, 43-44, 54:7-55:2; Jubilees 7:26-39, 10:1-15. The Hebrew "Book of Noah", a later work, is printed in Adolf Jellinek's "Bet ha-Midrasch", 3:155-156, and translated into German in Rönsch, "Das Buch der Jubiläen", 385-387. It is based on the part of the above Book of Noah which is preserved in the "Book of Jubilees". The portion of this Hebrew work which is derived from the older work is reprinted in Charles's "Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees", p. 179. James Charlesworth writes (footnotes used for clarity)