8
And every nation walked after its own will and did ungodly things before thee and scorned thee, and thou didst not hinder them.
9
But again, in its time thou didst bring the flood upon the inhabitants of the world and destroy them.
10
And the same fate befell them: as death came upon Adam, so the flood upon them.
11
But thou didst leave one of them, Noah with his household, and all the righteous who have descended from him.
12
"When those who dwelt on earth began to multiply, they produced children and peoples and many nations, and again they began to be more ungodly than were their ancestors.
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