Noah
Noah is the son of Lamech and the tenth in Genesis 5’s line from Adam. The Septuagint spells his name Noe. Genesis names him at birth with a promise, “This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed,” and later calls him a just man, perfect in his generation, well-pleasing to God. Hebrews reads his ark as faith, Peter counts eight people saved with him, and Jesus says the coming of the Son of Man will be as the days of Noah. 1 Enoch and Jubilees say more than Genesis does about his birth and his sons.
In Scripture
Genesis
He is named at birth as the one who will cause us to cease from our works, finds grace before the Lord, is told to make the ark, offers on the altar after the flood, and receives the covenant with the bow in the cloud.
Prophets (Septuagint)
Isaiah calls the flood “the water of Noe.” Ezekiel names Noe with Daniel and Job as men who would be delivered by their righteousness.
Wisdom writings (Septuagint)
Sirach names Noah and says an everlasting covenant was made with him. Wisdom 10:4 speaks of the righteous preserved in a piece of wood of small value, and does not name him.
New Testament
Hebrews says he prepared an ark by faith and condemned the world. Peter calls him a preacher of righteousness, one of eight, and writes of the days of Noah when God’s patience waited and eight souls were saved through water. Jesus says the days of Noah are the pattern for the coming of the Son of Man.
1 Enoch and Jubilees
1 Enoch tells of Noah’s birth to Lamech and Methuselah’s household. Jubilees tells how unclean spirits led astray his sons’ children, how he prayed, and how the chief of the spirits, Mastêmâ, asked that some remain.