2 Esdras 6:54

54 More important than all of these, you created Adam and put him in charge of everything that you had made. And all of us, the people you have chosen, are descended from him.

2 Esdras 6:54 In-Context

52 You let Leviathan live in the sea. You kept them both alive, so that your chosen people may feast on them at the time you choose.

53 On the sixth day you commanded the earth to produce the animals, domestic and wild, large and small.

54 More important than all of these, you created Adam and put him in charge of everything that you had made. And all of us, the people you have chosen, are descended from him.

55 "O Lord, I have told you all this because you said that you created this first world for the sake of your people.

56 You said that, in spite of their great numbers, all the other nations which descended from Adam are nothing, worth no more than a drop of water, no more than spit.