Genesis 18:27-29

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁷ Abraham answered, “See now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it on myself to speak to my Lord. ²⁸ What if there are five fewer than fifty righteous? Will you destroy the entire city if the number is five short?”

He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

²⁹ He spoke to him yet again and said, “What if only forty are found there?”

He said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”