2Esdr 3:6
And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had
planted, before ever the earth came forward.

2Esdr 3:7
And unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way: which
he transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst death in him
and in his generations, of whom came nations, tribes, people,
and kindreds, out of number.

2Esdr 3:8
And every people walked after their own will, and did
wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.

2Esdr 3:9
And again in process of time thou broughtest the flood upon
those that dwelt in the world, and destroyedst them.

2Esdr 3:10
And it came to pass in every of them, that as death was to
Adam, so was the flood to these.

2Esdr 3:11
Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his
household, of whom came all righteous men.

2Esdr 3:12
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