Genesis 18:17-33 - Abraham's Bargain With God
17 And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I do? 18 And Abraham being, shall be for a great and numerous nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in him. 19 For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him. 20 And Jehovah will say, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah became great, and because their sin was exceedingly heavy, 21 I will go now and see whether they did wholly according to its cry coming to me; and if not, I shall know.
22 And the men will turn back from thence, and will go forth to Sodom: and Abraham stood yet before the face of Jehovah. 23 And Abraham will draw near, and will say, Wilt thou also destroy the just with the wicked 24 Perhaps there is fifty just in the midst of the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty just which are within it? 25 Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?
26 And Jehovah will say, If I shall find in Sodom fifty just, in the midst of the city, I forgive all the place for their sakes.
27 And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes. 28 If the fifty just shall lack five: wilt thou destroy for sake of five all the city? And he will say, I will not destroy, if I shall find there forty and five.
29 And he added yet to speak to him, and he will say, If forty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do for sake of forty.
30 And he will say, Now will it not kindle to the Lord, and I will speak: If thirty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do, if I shall find thirty there.
31 And he will say, Behold now, I have begun to speak to the Lord If twenty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of twenty.
32 And he will say, Now will it not be angry to the Lord, and I will speak only this once: If ten shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of ten. 33 And Jehovah went forth after that he finished to speak to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.