The Flood Narrative (Expanded)

Genesis 6:9-22

“Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, 'I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.'”

Quran 11:36-48

“And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them for a thousand years minus fifty years. And the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers. So We saved him and those with him in the ship, and We made it a sign for the worlds. And We left for him among later peoples, 'Peace upon Noah among the worlds.'”

Epic of Gilgamesh tablet XI

“The rain started beating down upon the earth. For six days and seven nights the wind carried the great flood. But on the seventh day the storm ceased. All day long the wind carried the great flood, coming upon the mountain lands, attacking the people like an attack of war.”

Mahabharata (Manu and the flood)

“When Brahma commanded the great flood to cleanse the earth, Manu was warned by a divine fish of the coming deluge. He built a great ark and gathered seeds of all living beings. He alone survived the flood and repopulated the earth.”

Ogyges flood (ancient Greek mythology)

“The first great flood in Greek mythology, attributed to Zeus, destroyed most of humanity. It was so ancient that even the Greeks of later ages knew little of it, calling it the Flood of Ogyges.”

Bundahishn (Zoroastrian cosmology)

“In the eternal struggle between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, floods and droughts are tests of the faithful. The righteous survive through adherence to the good law, while the wicked perish.”