Genesis 18:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but 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

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

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Job 30:19

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Psalm 144:3

O Lord, what are humans that you regard them, or mortals that you think of them?

Psalm 8:4

what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”