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And it came to pass in every 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, that when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten
them many children, and were a great people, 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 lovedst, and unto him only thou shewedst 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 by Esau: and so Jacob became a great multitude.
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And it came to pass, that when thou leadest his seed out of Egypt, thou broughtest them up
to the mount Sinai.
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And bowing the heavens, thou didst set fast the earth, movedst the whole world, and madest
the depths to tremble, and troubledst the men of that age.
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And thy glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold;
that thou mightest give the law unto the seed of Jacob, and diligence unto the generation of Israel.
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And yet tookest thou not away from them a wicked heart, that thy law might bring forth fruit
in them.
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For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they
that are born of him.
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Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (also) in the heart of the people with the
malignity of the root; so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still.
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So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then didst thou raise thee up
a servant, called David:
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Whom thou commandedst to build a city unto thy name, and to offer incense and oblations
unto thee therein.
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When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city forsook thee,
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And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a
wicked heart:
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And so thou gavest thy city over into the hands of thine enemies.
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Are their deeds then any better that inhabit Babylon, that they should therefore have the
dominion over Sion?
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For when I came thither, and had seen impieties without number, then my soul saw many
evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me.
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For I have seen how thou sufferest them sinning, and hast spared wicked doers: and hast
destroyed thy people, and hast preserved thine enemies, and hast not signified it.
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