Genesis 18:27 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁷ And Aḇraham answered and said, “Look, please, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה,

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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.

Genesis 18:27 Cross References

Genesis 18:28

Suppose there are five less than the fifty righteous, would You destroy all of the city for lack of five? And He said, “If I find there forty-five, I do not destroy it.”

Genesis 2:7

And יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of lives. And the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

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

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

Job 30:19

throwing me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Psalm 144:3

יהוה, what is man, that You should know him? Son of man, that You should think of him?

Psalm 8:4

What is man that You remember him? And the son of man that You visit him?

Exodus 32:11

But Mosheh pleaded with יהוה his Elohim, and said, “יהוה, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with a strong hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe to 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 my eyes have seen the Sovereign, יהוה of hosts.”

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.

Luke 18:1

And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,

Luke 5:8

And when Shim‛on Kĕpha saw it, he fell down at the knees of יהושע, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a man, a sinner, O Master!”