Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis 18:24 in other translations
| BSB | What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there? |
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| WEB | What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? |
| ASV | Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? |
| YLT | peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty--the righteous who are in its midst? |
| DARBY | There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein? |
| BBE | If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men? |
| Webster | Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it? |
What does Genesis 18:24 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 18:23-33
Here is the first solemn prayer upon record in the Bible; and it is a prayer for the sparing of Sodom. Abraham prayed earnestly that Sodom might be spared, if but a few righteous persons should be found in it. Come and learn from Abraham what compassion we should feel for sinners, and how earnestly we should pray for them. We see here that the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Abraham…
Genesis 18:24 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 18:24
- Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
- Isaiah 1:9
Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
- Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
- Genesis 18:32
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
- Acts 27:24
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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Context
- Genesis 18:23
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
- Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis 18:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Quizá hay cincuenta justos dentro de la ciudad: ¿destruirás también y no perdonarás al lugar por cincuenta justos que estén dentro de él? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Peut-être y a-t-il 50 justes dans la ville; la détruiras-tu, et ne pardonneras-tu pas à la ville à cause des 50 justes qui seront en elle? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vielleicht sind fünfzig Gerechte innerhalb der Stadt; willst du sie denn wegraffen und dem Orte nicht vergeben um der fünfzig Gerechten willen, die darin sind? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | si fuerint quinquaginta justi in civitate, peribunt simul? et non parces loco illi propter quinquaginta justos, si fuerint in eo? |