Genesis 18:32 - The Scriptures 1998

³² And he said, “Let not יהוה  be displeased, and let me speak only this time: Suppose there are found ten?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of ten.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again only this once. Suppose ten [righteous people] shall be found there. And [the Lord] said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.

Common English Bible

³² Abraham said, “Don’t be angry with me, my Lord, but let me speak just once more. What if there are ten?” And the LORD said, “I will not destroy it because of those ten.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² "I beg you," he said, "not to be angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more. What if ten were found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

Genesis 18:32 Cross References

Genesis 18:30

And he said, “Let not יהוה  be displeased, and let me speak: Suppose there are found thirty?” And He said, “I would not do it if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 18:31

And he said, “Look, please, I have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה : Suppose there are found twenty?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”

Genesis 44:18

And Yehuḏ

Job 33:23

If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to show man His straightness,

Psalm 86:5

For You, יהוה, are good, and ready to forgive, And great in kindness to all those who call upon You.

Exodus 32:14

And יהוה  relented from the evil which He said He would do to His people.

Proverbs 15:8

The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.

Isaiah 65:8

Thus said יהוה, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one shall say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is blessing in it,’ so I do for My servants’ sake, not to destroy them all.

Jeremiah 5:1

“Diligently search the streets of Yerushalayim, and please look, and know and seek in her open places if you find a man, if there is anyone doing right-ruling, seeking the truth, then I shall pardon her.

Micah 7:18

Who is an Ě

Matthew 7:7

“Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.

Ephesians 3:20

And to Him who is able to do exceedingly above what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

Judges 6:39

And Giḏ