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Genesis 18 Smith's Literal Translation
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and he will say, Behold, in the tent. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he will say, Returning, I will return to thee according to the time of life; and behold, a son to Sarah thy wife. And Sarah heard at the door of the tent, and she behind him. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Abraham and Sarah were old, being gone in days; the way according to women ceased to be to Sarah. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Sarah will laugh within her, saying, After it has not been to me till now, and my lord, being old. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Abraham, For what did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall truly even I bring forth, and I have become old? <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Shall the word of Jehovah be difficult, at the appointed time? I will return to thee, according to the time of life, and a son to Sarah. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Sarah will deny, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he will say, Nay, for thou didst 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>And the men will rise up from thence, and will look forth upon the face of Sodom: and Abraham went forth with them to accompany them. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I do? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Abraham being, shall be for a great and numerous nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in him. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah became great, and because their sin was exceedingly heavy, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I will go now and see whether they did wholly according to its cry coming to me; and if not, I shall know.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the men will turn back from thence, and will go forth to Sodom: and Abraham stood yet before the face of Jehovah. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Abraham will draw near, and will say, Wilt thou also destroy the just with the wicked. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Perhaps there is fifty just in the midst of the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty just which are within it? <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment? <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say, If I shall find in Sodom fifty just, in the midst of the city, I forgive all the place for their sakes. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If the fifty just shall lack five: wilt thou destroy for sake of five all the city? And he will say, I will not destroy, if I shall find there forty and five. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he added yet to speak to him, and he will say, If forty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do for sake of forty. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he will say, Now will it not kindle to the Lord, and I will speak: If thirty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do, if I shall find thirty there. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he will say, Behold now, I have begun to speak to the Lord If twenty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of twenty. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he will say, Now will it not be angry to the Lord, and I will speak only this once: If ten shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of ten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/18-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Jehovah went forth after that he finished to speak to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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