2 Esdras 3:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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; ¹⁴ you loved him, and to him alone you revealed the end of the times, secretly by night.