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Abraham Pleads for Sodom

16 When the men got up to leave,[a] they looked out over[b] Sodom. (Now[c] Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 18:16 tn Heb “And the men arose from there.”
  2. Genesis 18:16 tn Heb “toward the face of.”
  3. Genesis 18:16 tn The disjunctive parenthetical clause sets the stage for the following speech.
  4. Genesis 18:16 tn The Piel of שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to lead out, to send out, to expel”; here it is used in the friendly sense of seeing the visitors on their way.