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Genesis 18:24

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What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

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Genesis 18:24 in other translations

Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Genesis 18:24 · American Standard Version

Genesis 18:24 in context

  1. 22The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
  2. 23Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
  3. 24What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
  4. 25May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
  5. 26Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”