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Have I not chosen him as one who will teach his children✻ and all his race after him to follow the paths which the Lord shews them, and to do what is just and right, winning him the fulfilment of all the Lord has promised him? (Genesis 18, 19)
So the Lord told him, The ill repute of Sodom and Gomorrha goes from bad to worse, their sin is grievous out of all measure; (Genesis 18, 20)
I must needs go down to see for myself whether they have deserved the ill report that has reached me or not; I must know for certain. (Genesis 18, 21)
And Abraham stood there in the Lord’s presence, as the men turned and went on towards Sodom. (Genesis 18, 22)
Abraham drew close to him, and asked, Wilt thou, then, sweep away the innocent with the guilty? (Genesis 18, 23)
Suppose there are fifty innocent men in the city, must they too perish? Wilt thou not spare the place to save fifty such innocent men that dwell there? (Genesis 18, 24)
Never that, thou wilt not destroy the innocent with the guilty, as if innocence and guilt were all one; that is not thy way, that is not how the Judge of the whole earth executes justice! (Genesis 18, 25)
And the Lord told him, If I find fifty innocent citizens in Sodom, I will spare the whole place to save them. (Genesis 18, 26)
And Abraham answered, Dust and ashes though I be, I have taken it upon me to speak to my Lord, and speak I will. (Genesis 18, 27)
What if there should be five wanting to make up the tale of fifty innocent men? Wilt thou bring the whole city to ruin because there are five less than fifty? No, he said, if I meet with forty-five such, I will not bring it to ruin. (Genesis 18, 28)
But he plied him once more, What wilt thou do, then, if forty are found there? I will hold my hand, said he, to save forty. (Genesis 18, 29)
Then he said, Lord, do not be angry with me for pleading thus; what if thirty are found there? If I find thirty, he said, I will not do it. (Genesis 18, 30)
