2 Esdras 3:11-13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹¹ But you left one of them, Noah with his household, and all the righteous who have descended from him.^(A)

¹² “When those who lived 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 in your sight, you chose for yourself one of them, whose name was Abraham;^(B)