Genesis 18:28

What if there be Ave less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

29And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.

Read all of Genesis 18

Cross References

Genesis 18:26And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Numbers 14:17Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:

Job 23:3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 18:28