Genesis 18:32
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What does Genesis 18:32 mean?
And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will
speak
yet but this once
This should be the last request he should make on this account,
and therefore he desired he might be heard without any marks of
his displeasure;
Peradventure ten shall be found there:
how would the place be dealt with then? would it be consumed or
not?
and he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's
sake;
though no more righteous persons were found in it. Some of the
Jewish writers say F7, he ended at ten, because he
supposed there were ten righteous persons in Lot's family, Lot
and his wife, and their four daughters, and their four husbands;
but they forgot that two of Lot's daughters were unmarried, and
how many he had married is not known; ten they say make a
congregation, and wherever there are ten righteous persons, a
place is saved for their sakes.
F7 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 49. fol. 44. 3.
