2 Esdras 3:12-14

Revised Standard Version

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; ¹⁴ and thou didst love him, and to him only didst thou reveal the end of the times, secretly by night.