2 Esdras 3:13

13 When they committed iniquity before you, you chose one from among them whose name was Abraham.

2 Esdras 3:13 In-Context

11 But you left one of them, Noah, with his household, and all the righteous descended from him.

12 “When those who lived on earth began to multiply (and multiply they did—children, peoples, and many nations), they began again to act wickedly, even more so than the previous ones.

13 When they committed iniquity before you, you chose one from among them whose name was Abraham.

14 You loved him and showed him alone the end of times, secretly by night.

15 You made an eternal covenant with him, and you told him that you would never abandon his family line. You gave him Isaac, and you gave Jacob and Esau to Isaac.