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When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.</p> <p class="hdg">Sarah Laughs at the Promise</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."</p> <p class="hdg">Abraham Begs for Sodom</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. 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