I restored my iPod touch from iOS 4.2.1 and it doesn't update to iOS 6.1

I recently found my old iPod Touch ios 4.2.1 and resrored the whole thing and tried to update it, but it doesn't let me
Help?

Here are the last OS versions for each iPod generation:
An original iPod Touch can run iPhone OS 3.1.3
2G model: maximum iOS 4.2.1
3G model: maximum iOS 5.1.1
4G, 5G can run iOS 6. 
iOS 4: Updating your device to iOS 5 or later
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