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24 If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

26 And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

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24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[a] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?(A) 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing(B)—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous(C) and the wicked alike.(D) Far be it from you! Will not the Judge(E) of all the earth do right?”(F)

26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 18:24 Or forgive; also in verse 26