18. Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
19. For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
20. And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
21. I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know.
22. And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
23. And drawing nigh he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?