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"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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And when they were committing iniquity before thee, thou didst choose for thyself one of them, whose name was Abraham;
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and thou didst love him, and to him only didst thou reveal the end of the times, secretly by night.
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Thou didst make with him an everlasting covenant, and promise him that thou wouldst never forsake his descendants; and thou gavest to him Isaac, and to Isaac thou gavest Jacob and Esau.
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And thou didst set apart Jacob for thyself, but Esau thou didst reject; and Jacob became a great multitude.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.