What if there be five less than fifty just persons? Wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.
And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.
And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.