2 Esdras 3:7-15
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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.
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12 And it happened, that when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten them many children, and were a great people, they began again to be more ungodly than the first.
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13 Now when they lived so wickedly before thee, thou didst choose thee a man from among them, whose name was Abraham.
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14 Him thou lovedst, and unto him only thou shewedst thy will:
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15 And madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that thou wouldest never forsake his seed.