Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Let me go down, pray, and let me behold, whether according to their outcry which hath come in unto me, they have done altogether, And if not. I must know!
New American Standard Bible
I will
King James Version
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Holman Bible
I will go down
International Standard Version
I'm going down to see whether they've acted according to the protests that have reached me. If not, I wish to know."
A Conservative Version
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which comes to me. And if not, I will know.
American Standard Version
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Amplified
I will go down now, and see whether they have acted [as vilely and wickedly] as the outcry which has come to Me [indicates]; and if not, I will know.”
Bible in Basic English
I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.
Darby Translation
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know it.
Julia Smith Translation
I will go now and see whether they did wholly according to its cry coming to me; and if not, I shall know.
King James 2000
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry, which has come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress [which] has come to me? If not, I will know."
Modern King James verseion
I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me. And if not, I will know.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will go down and see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto me or not, that I may know."
NET Bible
that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know."
New Heart English Bible
I 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."
Webster
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know.
World English Bible
I 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."
Youngs Literal Translation
I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely -- and if not -- I know;'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 18:21
Prayers for Genesis 18:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abraham's Bargain With God
20 So Yahweh said, The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it hath become great, - And their sin, because it hath become exceeding grievous, 21 Let me go down, pray, and let me behold, whether according to their outcry which hath come in unto me, they have done altogether, And if not. I must know! 22 And the men turned from thence, and went their way, towards Sodom, - but, Yahweh was yet standing before Abraham.
Cross References
Genesis 11:5
And Yahweh came down, to behold the city, and the tower, - which the sons of men had built.
Exodus 3:8
therefore have I come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to take them up out of that land, into a land good and large, into a land flowing with milk and honey, - into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite, and the Amorite and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 33:5
Then said Yahweh unto Moses - Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye, are a stiff-necked people, in one moment - if I should go up in thy midst, should I make an end of thee, - Now, therefore lay down thine ornaments from off thee, that I may see what I must do with thee.
Genesis 11:7
Come on! let us go down, and there confuse their speech, - that they may not under-stand, each man the speech of his friend.
Joshua 22:22
El-Elohim-Yahweh, El-Elohim-Yahweh, he knoweth, and, Israel, he, shall know, - if in rebellion, or if in treachery, against Yahweh, do not save us this day:
Deuteronomy 8:2
So then, thou shalt remember all the way in which Yahweh thy God caused thee to journey these forty years in the desert, - that he might humble time to put thee to the proof to know what was in thy heart, - whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 13:3
thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams, - for Yahweh your God, is putting you to the proof, to know whether ye do love Yahweh your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.
Job 34:22
No darkness, and no death-shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.
Psalm 90:8
Thou hast set, Our iniquities before thee, Our secret near the luminary of thy face.
Psalm 139:1-24
O Yahweh! thou hast searched me, and observed:
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah, is written With a stylus of iron, With the point of a diamond: It is engraved Upon the tablet of their heart, And upon the horns of your altars;
Jeremiah 17:10
I - Yahweh, Searching the heart, Testing the affections; And giving to every man According to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
Micah 1:3
For lo! Yahweh, coming forth out of his place, - that he may descend, and march along upon the high places of the earth.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it shall come to pass, at that time, that I will search through Jerusalem, with lamps, - and will punish the men who are thickened upon their lees, who are saying in their heart, Yahweh, will not give blessing, neither will he bring calamity.
Luke 16:15
And he said unto them - Ye, are they who justify themselves before men, but, God, knoweth your hearts; because, that which amongst men is lofty, is an abomination before God.
John 6:38
Because I have come down from heaven, - Not that I should be doing my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Wherefore? Because I love you not? God, knoweth!
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Because, the Lord himself, with a word of command, with a chief-messenger's voice, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, - and, the dead in Christ, shall rise, first,
Hebrews 4:13
And there is, no created thing, can be secreted before him, but, all things, are naked and exposed to his eyes: - as to whom is, our discourse.