24. What if there are fifty righteous in the city? Shall You also destroy, and not spare the place, for the fifty righteous who are in it?
25. Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be treated like the wicked; far be it from You. Should not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26. So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the entire place for their sakes.”
27. Then Abraham answered and said, “I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord.