In Context

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, |I didn't laugh,| for she was afraid. He said, |No, but you did laugh.|

16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

17 Yahweh said, |Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.|

20 Yahweh said, |Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Genesis 18:18 in Other Translations