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And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.
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And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:
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Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
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For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham’s sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
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And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
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I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
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And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
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And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
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If 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?
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Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
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And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.