Genesis 18 — OURB
18Verse 1Adonai appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre [Bitter, Fatness], as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.Verse 2He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,Verse 3and said, “My lord, if now I have found chen ·grace· in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.Verse 4Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.Verse 5I 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.”Verse 6Abraham [Father of a multitude] hurried into the tent to Sarah [Princess], and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs [23.1 qt; 21.9 L] of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”Verse 7Abraham [Father of a multitude] ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.Verse 8He 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.Verse 9They asked him, “Where is Sarah [Princess], your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”Verse 10He said, “I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah [Princess] your wife will have a son.”+Sarah [Princess] sh'ma ·hear obey· in the tent door, which was behind him.Verse 11Now Abraham [Father of a multitude] and Sarah [Princess] were old, well advanced in age. Sarah [Princess] had passed the age of childbearing.Verse 12Sarah [Princess] laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”Verse 13Adonai said to Abraham [Father of a multitude], “Why did Sarah [Princess] laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’Verse 14Is anything too hard for Adonai? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah [Princess] will have a son.”+(2)Verse 15Then Sarah [Princess] denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”Verse 16The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom [Burning]. Abraham [Father of a multitude] went with them to see them on their way.Verse 17Adonai said, “Will I hide from Abraham [Father of a multitude] what I do,Verse 18since Abraham [Father of a multitude] will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?Verse 19For I have known him, to the end that he may enjoin his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Adonai, to do righteousness and right judgement; to the end that Adonai may bring on Abraham [Father of a multitude] that which he has spoken of him.”Verse 20Adonai said, “Because the cry of Sodom [Burning] and Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants] is great, and because their habitual sin ·missing the mark· is very grievous,Verse 21I 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.”Verse 22The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom [Burning], but Abraham [Father of a multitude] stood yet before Adonai.Verse 23Abraham [Father of a multitude] came near, and said, “Will you consume the upright with the wicked?Verse 24What if there are fifty upright within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty upright who are in it?Verse 25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the upright with the wicked, so that the upright should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Should not the Judge of all the earth do right judgement?”Verse 26Adonai said, “If I find in Sodom [Burning] fifty upright within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”Verse 27Abraham [Father of a multitude] answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to 'Adonay [Lord], although I am dust and ashes.Verse 28What if there will lack five of the fifty upright? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.”Verse 29He 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.”Verse 30He said, “Oh don’t let 'Adonay [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.”Verse 31He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to 'Adonay [Lord]. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”Verse 32He said, “Oh don’t let 'Adonay [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.”Verse 33Adonai went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham [Father of a multitude], and Abraham [Father of a multitude] returned to his place.