2 Esdras 3:3-11
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3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the most High, and said,
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4 O Lord, who bearest rule, thou spakest at the beginning, when thou didst plant the earth, and that thyself alone, and commandedst the people,
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5 And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
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6 And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had planted, before ever the earth came forward.
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7 And unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way: which he transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst death in him and in his generations, of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds, out of number.
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8 And every people walked after their own will, and did wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.
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9 And again in process of time thou broughtest the flood upon those that dwelt in the world, and destroyedst them.
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10 And it came to pass in every of them, that as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
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11 Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men.