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Genesis 18:23
And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
Genesis 18:23 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 18:23 in other translations
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
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In context
20 And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
21 I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
22 And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
23 And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
24 If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?
25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
26 And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
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