7. And Abraham ran to the cattle and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he made haste to prepare it.
8. Then he took curds and milk, and the calf which he prepared, and set it before them. And he was standing by them under the tree while they ate.
9. And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “Here, in the tent.”
10. And he said, “I will certainly return to you in the spring, and look, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the doorway of the tent, and which was behind him.
11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; the way of women had ceased to be for Sarah.
12. So Sarah laughed to herself saying, “After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall this pleasure be to me?”
13. Then Yahweh said to Abraham, “What is this that Sarah laughed, saying, ‘Is it indeed true that I will bear a child, now that I have grown old?’
14. Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you in the spring and Sarah shall have a son.”
15. But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
16. Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on their way.
17. Then Yahweh said, “Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do?
18. Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.
19. For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him.”
20. Then Yahweh said, “Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very serious,
21. I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress which has come to me? If not, I will know.”
22. And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Yahweh.
23. And Abraham drew near to Yahweh and said, “Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24. If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep them away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst?
25. Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?”
26. And Yahweh said, “If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”
27. Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I am dust and ashes.