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Genesis 18:17

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord considered: Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

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that I must go down to see whether or not their actions are as bad as the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.

As the men turned and walked on toward Sodom, Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

The Lord replied: If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

and the Lord rained down sulfur upon Sodom and Gomorrah, fire from the Lord out of heaven.

But when she reached the man of God on the mountain, she clasped his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said: “Let her alone, she is in bitter anguish; the Lord hid it from me and did not let me know.”

Was it not you, our God, who dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?

The counsel of the Lord belongs to those who fear him; and his covenant instructs them.

(Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.)

I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.

Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called “the friend of God.”




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