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God, upset at mankind's wickedness, resolved to destroy it, but Noah was righteous and found favor with Him. God told Noah to build an ark, 450 x 75 x 45 feet, with three decks. Noah did so, and took aboard his family (8 people in all) and pairs of all kinds of animals (7 of the clean ones). For 40 days and nights, floodwaters came from the heavens and from the deeps, until the highest mountains were covered. The waters flooded the earth for 150 days; then God sent a wind and the waters receded, and the ark came to rest in Ararat. After 40 days, Noah sent out a raven, which kept flying until the waters had dried up. He next sent out a dove, which returned without finding a perch. A week later he set out the dove again, and it returned with an olive leaf. The next week, the dove didn't return. After a year and 10 days from the start of the flood, everyone and everything emerged from the ark. Noah sacrificed some clean animals and birds to God, and God, pleased with this, promised never again to destroy all living creatures with a flood, giving the rainbow as a sign of this covenant. Animals became wild and became suitable food, and Noah and his family were told to repopulate the earth. Noah planted a vineyard and one day got drunk. His son Ham saw him lying naked in his tent and told his brothers Shem and Japheth, who came and covered Noah with their faces turned. When Noah awoke, he cursed Ham and his descendants and blessed his other sons.

Genesis 6-9.

A woman "clothed with the sun" gave birth to a man child who was taken up by God. The woman then lived in the wilderness, where the Devil-dragon, cast down to earth, persecuted her. At one time he cast a flood of water from his mouth trying to wash her away, but the earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood.

Revelation 12

Rabbi Judah, seeing two men waste bread, said, "There must be a great deal of food in the world. He cast them an angry glance, and suddenly there was a shortage of food. Sages said to R. Kahana, a disciple attending R. Judah, "You are by him constantly; persuade him to go by the marketplace." R. Kahana did so, and when R. Judah saw that there was famine in the land, he told his attendant, "Take off my shoes." When R. Kahana took off one of R. Judah's shoes, rain began to fall. As he was about to take off the other, the prophet Elijah appeared and said, "The Holy One says that a flood will lay waste the world if you take off the other shoe."

Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, eds., The Book of Legends: Sefer Ha-Aggadah, trans. William G. Braude (New York: Schocken Books, 1992), 303:578.