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Genesis 18 📜 📕 ↷
22 And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodome: but Abraham as yet stood before our Lord.📜💬📚
23 And approaching he said: What! Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?📜💬📚
24 If there shall be fifty just persons in the city, shall they perish withal? And wilt thou spare that place for fifty just, if they be therein?📜💬📚
25 Be it far from thee, that thou do this thing, and that thou kill the just with the wicked, and that the just be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee, which judgest all the earth: no, thou wilt not do this judgement.📜💬📚
26 And our Lord said to him: If I shall find in Sodome fifty just persons within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.📜💬📚
27 And Abraham answered, and said: Because I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.📜💬📚
28 What if there shall be five less than fifty just persons? Wilt thou for forty five destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I shall find five and forty.📜💬📚
29 And again he said unto him: But if forty shall be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not strike it for forty's sake.📜💬📚
30 Lord, saith he be not angry I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I shall find thirty there.📜💬📚
31 Because, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord: What if twenty shall be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.📜💬📚
32 I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for ten's sake.📜💬📚
33 And our Lord departed after that he ceased to speak unto Abraham: and Abraham returned into his place.📜💬📚
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