2 Esdras 3:13

13 And when they were committing iniquity before thee, thou didst choose for thyself one of them, whose name was Abraham;

2 Esdras 3:13 In-Context

11 But thou didst leave one of them, Noah with his household, and all the righteous who have descended from him.

12 "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.

13 And when they were committing iniquity before thee, thou didst choose for thyself one of them, whose name was Abraham;

14 and thou didst love him, and to him only didst thou reveal the end of the times, secretly by night.

15 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.