Genesis 18:28 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

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.

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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."

Genesis 18:28 Cross References

Genesis 18:26

6 And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Genesis 18:27

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

Genesis 18:29

9 And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.

Daniel 2:18

6 The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar: Thinkest thou indeed that thou canst tell me the dream that I saw, and the interpretation thereof?