14. And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why [is] this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really--I bear--and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath ason.'
15. And Sarah denieth, saying, `I did not laugh;' for she hath been afraid; and He saith, `Nay, but thou didst laugh.'
16. And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;
17. and Jehovah said, `Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,
18. and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
19. for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
20. And Jehovah saith, `The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah--because great; and their sin-- because exceeding grievous:
21. I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely--and if not--I know;'
22. and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.
23. And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?
24. peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty--the righteous who [are] in its midst?
25. Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been--as the righteous so the wicked--far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'
26. And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'