Catholic Public Domain Version
"I will descend and see whether they have fulfilled the work of the outcry that has reached me, or whether it is not so, in order that I may know.” "
— Genesis 18:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”
“I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. ”
“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."”
“that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.””
“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.”
“I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.”
“I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”
since he will become a great and very robust nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
For I know that he will instruct his sons, and his household after him, to keep to the way of the Lord, and to act with judgment and justice, so that, for the sake of Abraham, the Lord may bring about all the things that he has spoken to him.”
And so the Lord said, “The outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah has been multiplied, and their sin has become exceedingly grievous.
I will descend and see whether they have fulfilled the work of the outcry that has reached me, or whether it is not so, in order that I may know.”
And they turned themselves from there, and they went toward Sodom. Yet in truth, Abraham still stood in the sight of the Lord.
And as they drew near, he said: “Will you destroy the just with the impious?
If there were fifty of the just in the city, will they perish with the rest? And will you not spare that place for the sake of fifty of the just, if they were in it?