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And Thou leddest him into Paradise which Thy right hand had planted before ever the earth came forward.
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And unto him Thou gavest commandment to love Thy way, which he transgressed; and immediately Thou appointed death in him and in his generations, from whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindred without number.
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And every people walked after their own will, and did dreadful things before Thee and despised Thy commandments.
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And again, in process of time, Thou broughtest the flood upon those who dwelt in the world, and destroyed them.
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And it came to pass with every one of them that as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
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Nevertheless one of them Thou leftest, namely, Noah, with his household, of whom came all righteous men.
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"And it happened, when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten them many children and were a great people, that they began again to be more ungodly than the first.
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Now when they lived so wickedly before Thee, Thou didst choose Thee a man from among them whose name was Abraham.
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Him Thou loved, and unto him only Thou showed Thy will
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and madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that Thou wouldest never forsake his seed.
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And unto him Thou gavest Isaac, and unto Isaac also Thou gavest Jacob and Esau. As for Jacob, Thou didst choose him to Thee and put off Esau; and so Jacob became a great multitude.