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And the same fate befell them: as death came upon Adam, so the flood upon them.
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But thou didst leave one of them, Noah with his household, and all the righteous who have descended from him.
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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.
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And when thou didst lead his descendants out of Egypt, thou didst bring them to Mount Sinai.
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Thou didst bend down the heavens and shake the earth, and move the world, and make the depths to tremble, and trouble the times.
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And thy glory passed through the four gates of fire and earthquake and wind and ice, to give the law to the descendants of Jacob, and thy commandment to the posterity of Israel.
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"Yet thou didst not take away from them their evil heart, so that thy law might bring forth fruit in them.