24What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?


In Context

21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.|

22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

23 Abraham drew near, and said, |Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?|

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

Genesis 18:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:24What 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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:24If 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?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:24Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:24There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:24Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:24peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty — the righteous who are in its midst?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?