23 Then Abraham drew near and said, ch. 20:4;Num. 16:22;2 Sam. 24:17"Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, [Job 8:20] so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Deut. 32:4;Job 8:3;34:10;Rom. 3:5,6Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" 26 And the Lord said, Jer. 5:1;Ezek. 22:30;[Isa. 65:8]"If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
32 Then he said, Judg. 6:39"Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it." 33 And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.