Genesis 18:27

And Avraham answered and said, Hinei now, I, which am but aphar and ashes, have taken upon me to speak unto Hashem;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

In Context

26And Hashem said, If I find in Sodom fifty tzaddikim within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

28Suppose there shall lack five of the fifty tzaddikim; 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat lechem, 1 till thou return unto haadamah; 1 for out of it wast thou taken; 1 for aphar thou art, 1 and unto aphar shalt thou return.

Exodus 32:11And Moshe besought Hashem Elohav, and said, Hashem, why doth Thy wrath burn hot against Thy people, which Thou hast brought forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim with ko'ach gadol, and with a yad chazakah?

Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in batim (houses) of clay, 1 whose yesod (foundation, origin) is in the dust, 1 which are crushed like the moth? 1

Job 42:6Therefore I abhor myself, 1 and nichamti (I am sorry, I make teshuvah) in dust and ashes.

Psalms 144:3Hashem, what is adam, that Thou takest knowledge of him! 1 Or the ben enosh, that Thou takest account of him! 1

Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Oy (Woe) is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen HaMelech, Hashem Tzva'os.

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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