27Abraham answered, |See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
27Abraham answered, |See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
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.|
27 Abraham answered, |See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?| He said, |I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.|
29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, |What if there are forty found there?| He said, |I will not do it for the forty's sake.|
18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:
18:27Then 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,
18:27And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.
18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I, who am dust and ashes, have taken upon me to speak to the Lord.
18:27And Abraham answereth and saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I — dust and ashes;
18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: