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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.

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

16 When the men(A) got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.

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