Broadly spreaking the story of Noah is that in a world where people were extremely wicked God is going to judge the world for its iniquities but Noah founds favor in the eyes of God God waits  years before executing the destruction He instructs Noah to build an Ark and a Deluge kills all people except the household of Noah God promises not to kill all people by a Deluge any more sign rainbow After this Noah is drunken because of experimenting with wine or some other fruit and Ham is cursed because of disrespectful behaviour  The most comprehensive account is the book of Genesis but other books mention it Book of Enoch Book of Jubilees Noah is also referred in for example  Esdras Ezekiel  Jesus Sirach  Maccabees  Later rabbinic traditions add some details to this story  In the New Testament the main elements of the story are confirmed in  Peter and Jesus adds that the days of Noah are comparable to the days of his coming  In Christian tradition the Ark has the symbol of the Church or Jesus who only can save from the judgment of God The Quranic version is about the same but has some small details which are not mentioned in Genesis  The GnosticLDS tradition differs a lot because in the Gnostic tradition it is not God who judged the world and in the LDS tradition Noah is not a mere man but an archangel