2 Esdras 3:9

9 Then again, after a while, you brought on the flood and destroyed the world's population. ¹

2 Esdras 3:9 In-Context

7 You gave him just one commandment, but he disobeyed it, and you immediately made him and his descendants subject to death. "From Adam were born more nations, tribes, clans, and families than can be counted.

8 All the nations did whatever they wished; they sinned against you and rejected your commands. But you did nothing to stop them.

9 Then again, after a while, you brought on the flood and destroyed the world's population.

10 They all suffered the same fate: as death had come to Adam, so now death came to a whole generation in the flood.

11 But you spared one man, Noah, with his family and all his righteous descendants.

Cross References

• 1. 3.9Genesis 6.9--8.22.