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Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city; would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it? (Genesis 18, 24)
The LORD replied, "If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." (Genesis 18, 26)
Abraham spoke up again: "See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am but dust and ashes! (Genesis 18, 27)
What if there are five less than fifty innocent people? Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?" "I will not destroy it," he answered, "if I find forty-five there." (Genesis 18, 28)
Then he said, "Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on. What if only thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will forebear doing it if I can find but thirty there." (Genesis 18, 30)
Still he went on, "Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord, what if there are no more than twenty?" "I will not destroy it," he answered, "for the sake of the twenty." (Genesis 18, 31)
But he still persisted: "Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time. What if there are at least ten there?" "For the sake of those ten," he replied, "I will not destroy it." (Genesis 18, 32)
The LORD departed as soon as he had finished speaking with Abraham, and Abraham returned home. (Genesis 18, 33)
Then the angels said to Lot: "Who else belongs to you here? Your sons (sons-in-law) and your daughters and all who belong to you in the city--take them away from it! (Genesis 19, 12)
We are about to destroy this place, for the outcry reaching the LORD against those in the city is so great that he has sent us to destroy it." (Genesis 19, 13)
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had contracted marriage with his daughters. "Get up and leave this place," he told them; "the LORD is about to destroy the city." But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. (Genesis 19, 14)
As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, "On your way! Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city." (Genesis 19, 15)
