Genesis 18:28 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁸ Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ If five of the fifty righteous should be lacking–will You destroy the whole city for lack of five? He said, If I find forty-five, I will not destroy it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

Common English Bible

²⁸ what if there are five fewer innocent people than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city over just five?” The LORD said, “If I find forty-five there, I won’t destroy it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ What if there were five less than fifty of the just? Would you, despite the forty-five, eliminate the entire city?" And he said, "I will not eliminate it, if I find forty-five there."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ What if there be five less than fifty just persons? Wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

Genesis 18:28 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 18:26

And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:29

Again he spoke to him, and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”

Daniel 2:18

and told them to seek mercy of the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.