Genesis 18:28
Good News Translation
But perhaps there will be only forty-five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you destroy the whole city because there are five too few?" The LORD answered, "I will not destroy the city if I find forty-five innocent people."

New Revised Standard Version
Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Contemporary English Version
But suppose there are only 45 good people in Sodom. Would you still wipe out the whole city?" "If I find 45 good people," the LORD replied, "I won't destroy the city."

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

wilt.

Numbers 14:17-19 Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying: . . .

1 Kings 20:32,33 So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my brother. . . .

Job 23:3,4 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

If I.

Genesis 18:26,29 And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake. . . .

Context
Abraham Begs for Sodom
27And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. 28What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.29And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:29
And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.

Daniel 2:18
To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Genesis 18:27
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