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.
23 亚伯拉罕上前说: "你真的要把义人和恶人一同除灭吗?
24 假如城中有五十个义人, 你还真的要除灭那地方, 不为城里的五十个义人而赦免那地方吗?
25 你绝不会作这样的事: 把义人与恶人一同杀死, 把义人和恶人一样看待, 你绝不会这样! 审判全地的主, 岂可不行公义吗?"
26 耶和华说: "我若在所多玛城中找到五十个义人, 我就因他们的缘故, 赦免那地方所有的人。"
27 亚伯拉罕回答, 说: "我虽然是灰尘, 还大胆地对我主说话。
28 假如这五十个义人中缺少了五个, 你会因为缺少了五个就毁灭全城吗?"他说: "我若在那里找到四十五个, 我也不会毁灭那城。"
29 亚伯拉罕再问他说: "假如在那里找到四十个呢?"他回答: "我因这四十个的缘故, 也不这样作。"
30 亚伯拉罕说: "请我主不要动怒, 容我再问: ‘假如在那里找到三十个呢?’"他回答: "我若在那里找到三十个, 也不这样作。"
31 亚伯拉罕说: "我再大胆地对我主说, 假如在那里找到二十个呢?"他回答: "我因这二十个的缘故, 也不毁灭那城。"
32 亚伯拉罕说: "请我主不要动怒, 容我问这最后的一次, 假如在那里找到十个呢?"他回答: "我因这十个的缘故, 也不毁灭那城。"
33 耶和华与亚伯拉罕说完了话, 就走了; 亚伯拉罕也回到自己的地方去了。