And he said, “Look, please, I have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה : Suppose there are found twenty?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”
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.”
“If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
“I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.