Genesis 18:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁷ 7 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Abraham answered, Behold now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

Common English Bible

²⁷ Abraham responded, “Since I’ve already decided to speak with my Lord, even though I’m just soil and ash,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And Abraham responded by saying: "Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:27 Cross References

Genesis 18:28

8 What if there be Ave 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 2:7

And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

9 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Ezra 9:6

1 Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land, according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their filth.

Job 30:19

4 But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

Job 4:19

I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

Psalm 144:3

0 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

Psalm 8:4

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.

Exodus 32:11

4 And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

4 And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.

Isaiah 6:5

3 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Isaiah 64:8

That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

Luke 18:1

And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

Luke 5:8

6 And he retired into the desert, and prayed.