23 En Abraham het nader gekom en gesê: Sal U ook die regverdige saam met die goddelose ombring?

24 Miskien is daar vyftig regverdiges binne-in die stad; sal U hulle ook ombring en die plek nie spaar ter wille van die vyftig regverdiges wat daarin is nie?

25 Laat dit ver van U wees om so iets te doen: om die regverdige saam met die goddelose om te bring, sodat die regverdige gelyk is met die goddelose. Laat dit ver van U wees! Sal die Regter van die ganse aarde geen reg doen nie?

26 Toe sê die HERE: As Ek in Sodom vyftig regverdiges vind binne-in die stad, dan sal Ek die hele plek spaar om hulle ontwil.

27 En Abraham antwoord en sê: Kyk tog, ek het dit gewaag om met die Here te spreek alhoewel ek stof en as is.

28 Miskien sal daar aan die vyftig regverdiges vyf ontbreek; sal U ter wille van vyf die hele stad verwoes? En Hy antwoord: Ek sal dit nie verwoes as Ek daar vyf en veertig vind nie.

29 En hy het nog verder met Hom gespreek en gesê: Miskien sal daar veertig gevind word. En Hy antwoord: Ek sal dit ter wille van die veertig nie doen nie.

30 Verder sê hy: Laat die Here tog nie toornig wees nie, en mag ek nog iets sê. Miskien sal daar dertig gevind word. En Hy antwoord: Ek sal dit nie doen as Ek daar dertig vind nie.

31 Toe sê hy: Kyk tog, ek het dit gewaag om met die Here te spreek. Miskien sal daar twintig gevind word. En Hy antwoord: Ek sal dit ter wille van die twintig nie verwoes nie.

32 Toe sê hy: Laat die Here tog nie toornig wees nie en laat my net hierdie keer mag spreek. Miskien sal daar tien gevind word. En Hy antwoord: Ek sal dit ter wille van die tien nie verwoes nie.

33 En die HERE het weggegaan toe Hy opgehou het om met Abraham te spreek, en Abraham het na sy woonplek teruggekeer.

23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

24 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?

25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.