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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 18 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Genesis 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/17.htm" title="Genesis 17">◄</a> Genesis 18 <a href="../genesis/19.htm" title="Genesis 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/18-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Three Visitors<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the Lord appeared to him, in the steep valley of Mamre, when he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men, standing near him. When he had seen them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and he reverenced them on the ground. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he said: “If I, O lord, have found grace in your eyes, do not pass by your servant. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But I will bring a little water, and you may wash your feet and rest under the tree. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And I will set out a meal of bread, so that you may strengthen your heart; after this you will pass on. It is for this reason that you have turned aside to your servant.” And they said, “Do as you have spoken.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and he said to her, “Quickly, mix together three measures of the finest wheat flour and make loaves baked under the ashes.” <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In truth, he himself ran to the herd, and he took a calf from there, very tender and very good, and he gave it to a servant, who hurried and boiled it. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Likewise, he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and he placed it before them. Yet truly, he himself stood near them under the tree.<p> <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Sarah Laughs at the Promise<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And when they had eaten, they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He answered, “Behold, she is in the tent.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he said to him, “When returning, I will come to you at this time, with life as a companion, and your wife Sarah will have a son.” Hearing this, Sarah laughed behind the door of the tent. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now they were both old, and in an advanced state of life, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And she laughed secretly, saying, “After I have grown old, and my lord is elderly, shall I give myself to the work of delight?” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the Lord said to Abraham: “Why did Sarah laugh, saying: ‘How can I, an old woman, actually give birth?’ <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Is anything difficult for God? According to the announcement, he will return to you at this same time, with life as a companion, and Sarah will have a son.” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh.” For she was terribly afraid. But the Lord said, “It is not so; for you did laugh.”<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Abraham Intercedes for Sodom<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore, when the men had risen up from there, they directed their eyes against Sodom. And Abraham traveled with them, leading them. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the Lord said: “How could I hide what I am about to do from Abraham, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>since he will become a great and very robust nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I know that he will instruct his sons, and his household after him, to keep to the way of the Lord, and to act with judgment and justice, so that, for the sake of Abraham, the Lord may bring about all the things that he has spoken to him.” <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And so the Lord said, “The outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah has been multiplied, and their sin has become exceedingly grievous. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I will descend and see whether they have fulfilled the work of the outcry that has reached me, or whether it is not so, in order that I may know.”<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And they turned themselves from there, and they went toward Sodom. Yet in truth, Abraham still stood in the sight of the Lord. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And as they drew near, he said: “Will you destroy the just with the impious? <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If there were fifty of the just in the city, will they perish with the rest? And will you not spare that place for the sake of fifty of the just, if they were in it? <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Far be it from you to do this thing, and to kill the just with the impious, and for the just to be treated like the impious. No, this is not like you. You judge all the earth; you would never make such a judgment.” <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the Lord said to him, “If I find in Sodom fifty of the just in the midst of the city, I will release the entire place because of them.” <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Abraham responded by saying: “Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>What if there were five less than fifty of the just? Would you, despite the forty-five, eliminate the entire city?” And he said, “I will not eliminate it, if I find forty-five there.” <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And again he said to him, “But if forty were found there, what would you do?” He said, “I will not strike, for the sake of the forty.” <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“I ask you,” he said, “not to be angry, Lord, if I speak. What if thirty were found there?” He responded, “I will not act, if I find thirty there.” <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Since now I have begun,” he said, “I will speak to my Lord. What if twenty were found there?” He said, “I will not put to death, for the sake of the twenty.” <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“I beg you,” he said, “not to be angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more. What if ten were found there?” And he said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the Lord departed, after he had ceased speaking to Abraham, who then returned to his place.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>