Genesis 18:28

But what will you do if there are only 45 righteous people? Will you destroy everyone in the whole city because there are only 45 and not 50 righteous people?” Yahweh replied, “I will not destroy it if I find that there are 45 righteous people.”

Translation for Translators

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

27Abraham replied, “I should not be bold like this and speak to you, God, because I am as worthless as dust and ashes [MET].

29Abraham continued to speak to him like this, saying, “What will you do if you find that there are only 40 righteous people there?” Yahweh replied, “I will not destroy them all, for the sake of the 40.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:26Yahweh replied, “If I find 50 righteous people in Sodom, I will spare the whole place/city for their sake.”

Numbers 14:17“So Yahweh, now show that you are very powerful. You said,

Job 23:3I ◄wish that I knew/want to know► where I could meet/talk with him, so that I could go to the place where he lives.

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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