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Genesis 18:24

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18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare 1  the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Genesis 18:31-32

Context

18:31 Abraham 2  said, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

18:32 Finally Abraham 3  said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

1 tn Heb “lift up,” perhaps in the sense of “bear with” (cf. NRSV “forgive”).

2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.



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