25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as 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.'
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