Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Suppose there are in the city fifty righteous; will You destroy the place and not spare it for [the sake of] the fifty righteous in it? American Standard Version (1901) Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? Common English Bible What if there are fifty innocent people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not save the place for the sake of the fifty innocent people in it? Catholic Public Domain Version If there were fifty of the just in the city, will they perish with the rest? And will you not spare that place for the sake of fifty of the just, if they were in it? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? And wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein? |
Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?*
He said, *Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?* He said, *I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.*
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sedom; we would have been like `Amorah.
Run you back and forth through the streets of Yerushalayim, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
saying, 'Don't be afraid, Sha'ul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'