While it was running with them in waves like mountains, Noah called to his son, who was in an isolated place: "My son, ride with us, and do not be with the ingrates!"
Translation endnotes
[11:40-44] Noah's ark was a simple watercraft made of logs connected with ropes (54:12). The flood was limited to the Dead Sea region and Noah's people (7:59; 9:70; 11:25,36,89; 22:42; 25:35-39; 38:12; 40:5,31; 50:12; 51:46; 53:52; 54:9; 71:1- 11). The animals taken to the watercraft were a few domesticated animals in Noah's farm. The holy storytellers mutated the story, and with time, it was exaggerated into a global event. Perhaps public interest encouraged the storytellers to exaggerate a bit more, until it became a mythology about a worldwide flood. The mythology found its way to the Old Testament; three chapters of Genesis, chapters 6-8, are allocated to the story of a universal flood (See Genesis 7:21-23). The letters of the New Testament also refer to a worldwide flood (1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 3:6). Also, see 2:93; 16:103; 26:101-105; 71:1-28.