Genesis 18:31
Verse 31 of 33. The 18th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.
27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
28Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
30And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
31And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
32And 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.
33And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
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Genesis 18:31 in the World English Bible
He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”Read Genesis 18:31 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:31
A deep sense of his own unworthiness (v. 27): Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes; and again, v. 31. He speaks as one amazed at his own boldness, and the liberty God graciously allowed him, considering God's greatness—he is the Lord; and his own meanness—but dust and ashes.
Read Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:23–33: Abraham's Intercession for Sodom. (b. c. 1898.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.