Genesis 18:28

Tree of Life Version

Suppose the fifty righteous people are lacking five. Will You destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:26

Then Adonai said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous people within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:29

So he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Perhaps forty will be found there?” And He said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

Daniel 2:18

so they would request mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not perish along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.