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CHAPTER 18
And the L
ORD
appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of
the day;
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And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw
them,
he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
3
And said,
My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
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Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
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And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for
therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
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And Abraham
hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead
it,
and make cakes upon the hearth.
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And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave
it
unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
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And he took butter, and milk, and
the calf which he had dressed, and set
it
before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they
did eat.
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And they said unto him, Where
is
Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
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And he
said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have
a son. And Sarah heard
it
in the tent door, which
was
behind him.
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Now Abraham and Sarah
were
old
and
well stricken in age;
and
it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
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Therefore
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being
old also?
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And the L
ORD
said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety
bear a child, which am old?
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Is any thing too hard for the L
ORD
? At the time appointed I will return
unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Then Sarah denied, saying,
I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
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And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them
to bring them on the way.
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And the L
ORD
said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
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Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the
earth shall be blessed in him?
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For I know him, that he will command his children and his household
after him, and they shall keep the way of the L
ORD
, to do justice and judgment; that the L
ORD
may
bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
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And the L
ORD
said, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
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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.
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And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet before the L
ORD
.
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And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy
the righteous with the wicked?
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Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou
also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that
are
therein?
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That be far from thee
to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as
the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
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And the L
ORD
said,
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
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