Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto ye LORde ad yet am but dust ad asshes.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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 the LORde sayde: Yf I fynde in Sodome.l. rightwes within the cyte I will spare all the place for their sakes.

28What though there lacke.v. of.l. rightwes wylt thou destroy all the cyte for lacke of.v? And he sayde: Yf I fynde there.xl. and.v. I will not destroy them.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the swete of thy face shalt thou eate brede vntill thou returne vnto the erth whece thou wast take: for erth thou art ad vnto erth shalt thou returne.

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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