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


In Context

23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?

25 Far be it from you to do such a thing-to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

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

27 Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,

28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?" "If I find forty-five there," he said, "I will not destroy it."

Genesis 18:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:26And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:26And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:26And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sakes.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:26Yahweh said, |If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:26And Jehovah saith, 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.