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But Abraam shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blest.
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For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraam all things whatsoever he has spoken to him.
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And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha has been increased towards me, and their sins are very great.
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I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to me, and if not, that I may know.
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And the men having departed thence, came to Sodom; and Abraam was still standing before the Lord.
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And Abraam drew nigh and said, Wouldest thou destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?
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Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?
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By no means shalt thou do as this thing so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. Thou that judgest the whole earth, shalt thou not do right?
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And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes.
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And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.
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But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five ? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.