Genesis 18:24 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁴ “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city, would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Suppose there are in the city fifty righteous; will You destroy the place and not spare it for [the sake of] the fifty righteous in it?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Common English Bible

²⁴ What if there are fifty innocent people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not save the place for the sake of the fifty innocent people in it?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ If there were fifty of the just in the city, will they perish with the rest? And will you not spare that place for the sake of fifty of the just, if they were in it?

Genesis 18:24 Cross References

Genesis 18:23

And Aḇraham drew near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?

Genesis 18:25

“Far be it from You to act in this way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”

Genesis 18:32

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.”

Job 35:8

Your wrong is for a man like yourself, and your righteousness for a son of man.

Isaiah 1:9

Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.

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.

Acts 27:24

saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Sha’ul, you have to be brought before Caesar. And look, Elohim has favourably given you all those who sail with you.’