Kejadian 18:24

18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare ¹  the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Kejadian 18:28-29

18:28 what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy ²  the whole city because five are lacking?” ³  He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

18:29 Abraham ⁴  spoke to him again, ⁵  “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

Kejadian 18:31-32

18:31 Abraham ⁶  said, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

18:32 Finally Abraham ⁷  said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

[18:24]  ¹ tn Heb “lift up,” perhaps in the sense of “bear with” (cf. NRSV “forgive”).

[18:28]  ² tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.

[18:28]  ³ tn Heb “because of five.”

[18:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:29]  ⁵ tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys – the preterite (“he added”) is combined with an adverb “yet” and an infinitive “to speak.”

[18:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.