Genesis 18:28

New American Bible - revised edition

What if there are five less than fifty righteous people? Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?” I will not destroy it, he answered, if I find forty-five there.

Cross References

Genesis 18:26

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

Genesis 18:27

Abraham spoke up again: “See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am only dust and ashes!

Genesis 18:29

But Abraham persisted, saying, “What if only forty are found there?” He replied: I will refrain from doing it for the sake of the forty.

Daniel 2:18

that they might implore the mercy of the God of heaven in regard to this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.