Parallel Verses
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.
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."
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."
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!
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 And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 21 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. 22 And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham yet stood before LORD.
Cross References
Genesis 11:5
And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A
Exodus 33:5
And LORD said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people. If I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee. Therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do to t
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
Joshua 22:22
The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
Deuteronomy 13:3
thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Psalm 90:8
Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalm 139:1-24
O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] 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, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Micah 1:3
For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, LORD will not do good, nor will he do evil.
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
John 6:38
Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I might do my will, but the will of him who sent me.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,
Hebrews 4:13
And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.