Gen 18 | ABEn | STEP | [ 3 appeared 1 And 4 to him 2 God] before the oak in Mamre, at his sitting near the door of his tent at midday.

Genesis 18

CHAPTER 18 The LORD Appears at Mamre

1 [³appeared ¹And ⁴to him ²God] before the oak in Mamre, at his sitting near the door of his tent at midday. 2 And lifting up his eyes he saw; and behold, three men had set upon him. And seeing, he ran up to meet with them from the door of his tent. And he did obeisance upon the ground. 3 And he said, O Lord, if surely I found favor before you, you should not go by your servant. 4 Let there be taken now water, and let them wash your feet, and be cooled under the tree! 5 And I will bring bread, and you shall eat, and after this you shall go in your journey, because of which you turned aside to your servant. And they said, Thus do as you have said! 6 And Abraham hastened unto the tent to Sarah. And he said to her, Hasten and mix up three measures of fine flour, and make a cake baked in hot ashes! 7 And [²to ³the ⁴oxen ¹Abraham ran], and he took a tender [³young calf ¹and ²good], and gave it to the servant; and he hastened to prepare it. 8 And he took butter, and milk, and the young calf which he prepared, and placed it near to them, and they ate. And he stood beside them under the tree. 9 And he said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And answering he said, Behold, in the tent. 10 And he said, Returning, I will come to you according to this time to the hour; and [³will have ⁴a son ¹Sarah ²your wife]. And Sarah heard by the door of the tent, being behind him. 11 And Abraham and Sarah were older, advanced of days, [³ceased ¹and ²Sarah] to be in the feminine ways. 12 [³laughed ¹And ²Sarah] in herself, saying, For not yet has it happened to me until now, and my lord is older. 13 And the lord said to Abraham, Why is it that Sarah laughed in herself, saying, Indeed is it truly I will bear, and I have grown old? 14 Is [²impossible ³to ⁴the lord ¹the saying]? At this time to the hour I will return to you, and there will be to Sarah a son. 15 [³denied ¹But ²Sarah], saying, I did not laugh; for she feared. And he said to her, No, but you laughed! 16 And having risen up from there, the men looked down upon the face of Sodom and Gomorrah. And Abraham went with them, escorting them. 17 And the lord said, No way shall I hide from Abraham my servant what I do. 18 [³to Abraham ¹But ²coming to pass], he will be made into [⁴nation ¹a great ²and ³populous], and [⁶shall be blessed ⁷by ⁸him ¹all ²the ³nations ⁴of the ⁵earth]. 19 For I had known that he will order his sons, and his house after him; and they will guard the ways of the lord, to do righteousness and judgment; that the lord may bring upon Abraham all as much as he said to him. 20 [³said ¹And ²the lord], The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has multiplied towards me, and their sins are great, exceedingly. 21 Going down then, I will see if it is according to their cry, the cry coming to me that they exhaust; and if not, that I may know. 22 And turning back from there, the men came unto Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before the lord. 23 And Abraham approaching, said, You would not destroy together the just with the impious, and [³will be ¹the ²just] as the impious? 24 If there might be fifty just in the city, will you destroy them? Will you not spare all the place because of the fifty just, if there should be so in it? 25 By no means shall you do as this saying, to kill the just with the impious, and [³shall be ¹the ²just] as the impious; by no means, O one judging all the earth. Will you not execute judgment? 26 [³said ¹And ²the lord], If there should be in Sodom fifty just in the city, I will leave off doing so to all the place on account of them. 27 And Abraham responding said, Now that I began to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes. 28 But if [⁴may be lessened ¹the ²fifty ³just] to forty-five, will you destroy because of the five, all the city? And he said, No way will I destroy if I find there forty-five. 29 And he added yet to speak to him. And he said, But if there may be found there forty? And he said, No way should I destroy because of the forty. 30 And he said, Much less, O Lord, if I may speak, but if there may be found there thirty? And he said, No way will I destroy because of the thirty. 31 And he said, Since I have taken to speak to the Lord, but if there may be found there twenty? And he said, No way will I destroy if I should find there twenty. 32 And he said, Much less, O Lord, if I may speak still once more, but if there may be found there ten? And he said, No way will I destroy because of the ten. 33 [³went forth ¹And ²the lord] as he ceased speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.