Genesis 18:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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.

Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Ezra 9:6

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

Job 30:19

He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!

Psalm 144:3

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Psalm 8:4

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Exodus 32:11

And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Luke 18:1

And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Luke 5:8

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.