Again he spoke to him, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”
Genesis 18:30 - New Revised Standard Version Then he said, “Oh do not let the Lord be angry if I speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then [Abraham] said to Him, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak [again]. Suppose [only] thirty shall be found there. And He answered, I will not do it if I find thirty there. American Standard Version (1901) And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. Common English Bible He said, “Don’t be angry with me, my Lord, but let me speak. What if thirty are there?” The LORD said, “I won’t do it if I find thirty there.” Catholic Public Domain Version "I ask you," he said, "not to be angry, Lord, if I speak. What if thirty were found there?" He responded, "I will not act, if I find thirty there." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I find thirty there. |
Again he spoke to him, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”
He said, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”
Then Judah stepped up to him and said, “O my lord, let your servant please speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.
“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear
a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and awesome above all that are around him?
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
And I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let your anger burn against me, let me speak one more time; let me, please, make trial with the fleece just once more; let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”