01:018:021 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
01:018:022 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
01:018:023 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
01:018:024 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
01:018:025 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
01:018:026 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
01:018:027 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
01:018:028 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
01:018:029 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
01:018:030 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.