2 Esdras 3:11-13

Revised Standard Version

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;