24 If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

25 Be it far from thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be even as the wicked, be it far from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the world [a]do right?

26 And the Lord answered, If I shall find in Sodom [b]fifty righteous within the city, then will I spare all the place for their sakes.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 18:25 Hebrew, do judgment.
  2. Genesis 18:26 God declareth that his judgments were done with great mercy, forasmuch as all were so corrupt, that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the righteous’ sake.

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