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Noah was found perfect and righteous; in a time of anger, he was selected in exchange for the ungodly. Because of him, a few survivors remained on the earth when the flood happened.
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Eternal covenants were made with him so that all living things would not be wiped out by a flood again.
19
Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was no smudge on his glory.
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He kept the laws of the Most High, and he entered into a covenant with him. He established a covenant in his flesh, and when he was tested, he proved faithful.
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Therefore, the Lord certified for Abraham with a solemn pledge that he would bless nations through his descendants, that he would make him increase like the dust of the earth, exalt his descendants like the stars, and give them an inheritance from sea to sea and from the river to the end of the earth.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Some Gk manuscripts He had no equal in glory.