Catholic Public Domain Version
"And Abraham responded by saying: “Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes. "
— Genesis 18:27, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:”
“And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes: ”
“Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.”
“Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),”
“And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.”
“And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:”
“And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:”
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?
Far be it from you to do this thing, and to kill the just with the impious, and for the just to be treated like the impious. No, this is not like you. You judge all the earth; you would never make such a judgment.”
And the Lord said to him, “If I find in Sodom fifty of the just in the midst of the city, I will release the entire place because of them.”
And Abraham responded by saying: “Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.
What if there were five less than fifty of the just? Would you, despite the forty-five, eliminate the entire city?” And he said, “I will not eliminate it, if I find forty-five there.”
And again he said to him, “But if forty were found there, what would you do?” He said, “I will not strike, for the sake of the forty.”
“I ask you,” he said, “not to be angry, Lord, if I speak. What if thirty were found there?” He responded, “I will not act, if I find thirty there.”