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2 Esdras 3:7-12 World English Bible (WEB)

7. And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.

8. And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised your commandments, and you did not forbid them.

9. Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.

10. And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.

11. Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.

12. And it came to pass, that when they that lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.

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