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Enoch

16 (A)Enoch pleased the Lord and was taken up into heaven. He became an inspiration for repentance for all time to come.

Noah

17 (B)Noah was a perfectly righteous man. After destruction came, he gave the human race a new start.[a] Because of him there were people left on earth when the flood was over. 18 The Lord made an eternal covenant with him, promising that life would never again be destroyed by a flood.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 44:17 Hebrew gave...start; Greek was taken in exchange for the human race.

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