9. They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”He said, “There, in the tent.”
10. He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
12. Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
13. The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
14. Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
15. Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
16. The men rose up from there, and looked towards Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
17. The Lord said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
18. since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
19. For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
20. The Lord said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
21. I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
22. The men turned from there, and went towards Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
23. Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
24. What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
25. May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26. The Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27. Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.