Genesis 18:28

Perhaps of the fifty righteous there may be wanting five: shall all the city perish through five? And He said, I will not destroy, if I find there forty and five.

Targum Onkelos

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, Behold, I have done a great thing, to speak before the Lord, and I dust and ashes!

29And he added yet to speak before Him, and said, Perhaps forty may be found there. And He said, I will not make the end on account of the forty.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:26And the Lord said, If I find in Sedom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, I will spare all the place for their sake.

Numbers 14:17And now I beseech, let power be magnified from before the Lord, as Thou hast thus spoken, saying:

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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