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See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;

And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.

And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.

And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.

But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.

For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

Genesis 19

And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.