Sirach 44:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood came.

¹⁹ The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood.

²⁰ Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him.