7
And you laid upon him one commandment of yours; but he transgressed it, and immediately you appointed death for him and for his descendants. From him there sprang nations and tribes, peoples and clans without number.
5
and it gave you Adam, a lifeless body? Yet he was the creation of your hands, and you breathed into him the breath of life, and he was made alive in your presence.
6
And you led him into the garden that your right hand had planted before the earth appeared.
7
And you laid upon him one commandment of yours; but he transgressed it, and immediately you appointed death for him and for his descendants. From him there sprang nations and tribes, peoples and clans without number.
8
And every nation walked after its own will; they did ungodly things in your sight and rejected your commands, and you did not hinder them.
9
But again, in its time you brought the flood upon the inhabitants of the world and destroyed them.
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