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Some of them left a reputation, and people still praise them today.
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There are others who are not remembered, as if they had never lived, who died and were forgotten, they, and their children after them.
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But we will praise these godly men, whose righteous deeds have never been forgotten.
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Their reputations will be passed on to their descendants, and this will be their inheritance.
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Their descendants continue to keep the covenant and always will, because of what their ancestors did.
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Their family line will go on forever, and their fame will never fade.
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Their bodies were laid to rest, but their reputations will live forever.
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Nations will tell about their wisdom, and God's people will praise them.
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Enoch pleased the Lord and was taken up into heaven. He became an inspiration for repentance for all time to come.
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Noah was a perfectly righteous man. After destruction came, he gave the human race a new start. Because of him there were people left on earth when the flood was over.
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The Lord made an eternal covenant with him, promising that life would never again be destroyed by a flood.