Genesis 18:28

What if there were five less than fifty of the just? Would you, despite the forty-five, eliminate the entire city?” And he said, “I will not eliminate it, if I find forty-five there.”

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In The King James Version

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

In Context

27And Abraham responded by saying: “Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.

29And again he said to him, “But if forty were found there, what would you do?” He said, “I will not strike, for the sake of the forty.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:26And the Lord said to him, “If I find in Sodom fifty of the just in the midst of the city, I will release the entire place because of them.”

Numbers 14:17Therefore, may the strength of the Lord be magnified, just as you swore, saying:

Job 23:3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:24-33

Abraham's Intercession for Sodom. ( b. c. 1898.) 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the Lord said, If I… Read the whole commentary →

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