cir. 2247. + Heb. lip. + Heb. words.

+ Heb. a man faid to bis neigh

bour. + Heb. burn them

to a burning.

#That is, confufion.

5.

31 Thefe are the fons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32 These are the families of the fons of Noah after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

CHAP. XI.

One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran.

AND the whole earth was of one + language,

and of one + fpeech.

2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

3 And + they faid one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and + burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and flime had they for mortar.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whofe top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, left we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to fee the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD faid, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's fpeech.

8 So the LORD fcattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called || Babel, a because the LORD did there confound the lan

Wild.-10. guage of all the earth and from thence did the LORD fcatter them abroad upon the face of all

1 Chron. 3. 17.

2346.

2311.

2281.

C 1 Chron.

I. 19.

2247.

a Called,

the earth.

10 ¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat fons and daugh

ters.

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and Luke 3. 35, daughters.

Phalec. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.

2217.

The generations of Shem.

Christ

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two Before hundred and nine years, and begat fons and daughters.

zo And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begate Serug.

2217.

2185. Luke 3.

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and feven years, and begat fons and 35, daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.

Saruch.

2155. 2126.

f Luke 3:

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an 34, hundred and nineteen years, and begat fons and Thara. daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat, Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now thefe are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Caldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Ifcah.

30 But Sarai was barren; the had no child.

31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and Lot the son of Haran his fon's fon, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his fon Abram's wife; and cir. 1923. they went forth with them from Ur of the Cal-Neh. 9. 7. dees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they Judith 5.7. Acts 7.4. came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAP. XII.

1 God calleth Abram, and bleeth him with a promife of Chrift. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 which is promifed him in a vifion. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. 11 Fear maketh him feign his wife to be his fifter. 14 Pharaoh having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to reflore her.

a

1921.

Get thee out of thy country, and from
OW the LORD had faid unto Abram, ■ A&s 7. 3.

thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto
a land that I will fhew thee.

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a bleffing.

b

3 And I will blefs them that bless thee, and curfe him that curfeth thee: and in thee fhall Chap. 18. all families of the earth be bleffed.

18.& 221

A&s 3.25.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had fpoken 18. unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram Gal. 3. 35 was feventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's fon, and all their fubftance that they had gathered, and the fouls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land

b

1921.

6 And Abram paffed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. (And the Canaanite was then in the land.)

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and Chap. 13. faid, Unto thy feed will I give this land and there builded he and altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

4.

Chap. 13.

+ Heb. in going and journeying.

cir. 1920.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Berh-el, and pitched his tent, baving Beth-el on the weft, and Hai on the eaft: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, † going on still toward the fouth.

10 ¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

And it came to pafs, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.

12 Therefore it shall come to pafs, when the Egyptians fhall fee thee, that they fhall fay, This is his wife and they will kill me, but they will fave thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my fifter: that it may be well with me for thy fake; and my foul fhall live because of thee.

14 ¶ And it came to pafs, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very fair.

15 The princes alfo of Pharaoh faw her, andcommended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 And he entreated Abram well for her fake: and he had theep, and oxen, and he-affes, and men-fervants, and maid-servants, and the-affes, and camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his houfe with great plagues, because of Sarai Abram's wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and faid, What is this that thou hast done unto me? Why didft thou not tell me that he was thy wife?

19 Why faidft thou, She is my fifter? fo I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore, behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they fent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Chrift 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had cir. 1919. made there at the firft: and there Abram called Chap. 12. on the name of the LORD.

5 And Lot also which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their fubftance was great, fo that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was a ftrife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

8 And Abram faid unto Lot, Let there be no ftrife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen: for we bet brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

a

7.

+ Heb. men brethren.

11 Then Lot chofe him all the plain of Jor- cir. 1917. dan; and Lot journeyed eaft: and they feparated" themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, and finners before the LORD exceedingly.

14 ¶ And the LORD faid unto Abram, after that Lot was feparated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and fouthward, and eastward, and weftward.

b

15 For all the land which thou feeft, to thee will I give it, and to thy feed for ever. 16 And I will make thy feed as the duft of the earth: fo that if a man can number the duft of the earth, then fhall thy feed also be numbered.

17 Arife, walk through the land, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will give it unto thee.

M

Chap. 12. 7. & 26.4. Deut. 34.4

18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the + plain of Mamre, which is in † Heb Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. plains. CHAP. XIV.

The battle of four kings against five. 12 Lot is taken prifoner: 14 Abram refcueth him. 18 Melchifedek bleffeth Abram. 20 Abram giveth him tithe : 22 The rest of the fpoil, his partners having had their portions, he reftoreth to the king of Sodom. ND it came to pafs in the days of Amra- cir. 1926, phel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellafar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

2 That thefe made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birtha king of Gomorrah, Shinab

Before king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela which is Zoar.

Christ cir. 1926.

cir. 1913.

Or, the plain of

3 All thefe were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the falt fea.

4 Twelve years they ferved Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and fmote the Rephaims, in Afhteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in | Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Kiriathaim. 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Or, the plain of Pa-El-paran, which is by the wilderness. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and fmote all the country of the Amalekites, and alfo the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.

ran.

Or, led jorth.

Or, inAructed.

7

8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, (the fame is Zoar) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellafar: four kings with five.

10 And the vale of Siddim was full of flimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain.

11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's fon (who dwelt in Sodom) and his goods, and departed.

13¶And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Efhcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he || armed his trained fervants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and purfued them unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them, he and his fervants by night, and fmote them, and purfued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

16 And he brought back all the goods, and alfo brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women alfo, and the people.

17 ¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him (after his return from the flaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him) a 2 Sam. 18. at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's

dale.

18 And Melchifedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

19 And he bleffed him and faid, Bleffed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

20 And bleffed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

God's promife to Abram.

21 And the king of Sodom faid unto Abram, Before Givemethet perfons, and take the goods tothyfelf. Chrift 22 And Abram faid to the king of Sodom, I cir. 1913. have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most † Heb. high God, the poffeffor of heaven and earth, fouls.

23 That I will not take from a thread even to a fhoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, left thou thouldeft fay, I have made Abram rich:

24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Efhcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

CHAP. XV.

1 God encourageth Abram. 2 Abram complainesh for want of an heir. 4 God promifeth him a fon, and a multiplying of his feed. 6 Abram is juftified by faith. 7 Canaan is promifed again, and confirmed by a fign, 12 and a vifion.

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FTER thele things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy fhield, and thy exceeding great reward.

a

191

a Pfal. 16.

2 And Abram faid, Lord GOD, what wilt 5. thou give me, feeing I go childless, and the fteward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus ?

3 And Abram faid, Behold, to me thou haft given no feed and lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

4 And behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, faying, This fhall not be thine heir, but he that hall come forth out of thine own bowels fhall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and faid, Look now toward heaven, and tell the ftars, if thou be able to number them: and he faid unto him, So fhall thy feed be.

6 And he believed in the LORD; and he 18. counted it to him for righteousness.

• Kom. 4.

Gal. 3. 6.

7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that 3: brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give Jam. 2. 23. thee this land to inherit it.

8 And he faid, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a fhe-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midft, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcafes, Abram drove them away.

12 And when the fun was going down, a deep fleep fell upon Abram; and lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

13 And he faid unto Abram, Know of a furety

d that thy feed fhall be a stranger in a land that is & Acts 7.6. not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

14 And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterward shall they come out with great fubftance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But

8

Hagar fleeth from Sarai.

Deut. 34.

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgafhites, and the Jebufites. CHAP. XVI.

1 Sarai being barren giveth Hagar to Abram. 6 Hagar being afflicted for defpifing her mistress, runneth away. 9 An angel fendeth her back to Submit herself, 11 and telleth her of her child. 15 Ihmael is born.

Sarai Abram's wife bare him no chil

Gir. 1911. Ndren: and the had an handmaid an Egyp

tian, whofe name was Hagar.

2 And Sarai faid unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath reftrained me from bearing: pray thee go in unto my maid; it may be that + Heb. be I may † obtain children by her: and Abram builded by hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

ber.

3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her hufband Abram to be his wife.

4¶And he went in unto Hagar, and the conceived: and when the faw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

5 And Sarai faid unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bofom; and when the faw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram faid unto Sarai, Behold, thy + Heb. maid is in thy hand; do to her + as it pleaseth that which thee. And when Sarai + dealt hardly with her, is good in fhe fled from her face. thine eyes.

+ Heb.

7 And the angel of the LORD found her by ited ber. a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

That is, God feall

ear.

8 And he faid, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence cameft thou? and whither wilt thou go? And fhe faid, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

9 And the angel of the LORD faid unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

10 And the angel of the LORD faid unto her, I will multiply thy feed exceedingly, that it fhall not be numbered for multitude.

II And the angel of the LORD faid unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and fhalt bear a fon, and fhalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand a

Abram's name changed.

against him: and he fhall dwell in the prefence Before of all his brethren.

Chrift 1911.

13 And the called the name of the LORD that fpake unto her, Thou God feeft me: for the faid, a Chap. 25, Have I also here looked after him that feeth me? 18.

62.

14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-la-Chap. 24. hai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. That is, 15 ¶ And Hagar bare Abram a fon : and A- the well of bram called his ton's name, which Hagar bare, him that Ishmael. liveth and

16¶ And Abram was fourfcore and fix years feeth me. old, when Hagar bare Ifhmael to Abram. CHA P. XVII.

1 God reneweth the covenant. 5 Abram his name is changed in token of a greater bleffing. 10 Circumcifion is inftituted. 15 Sarai her name is changed, and he bleffed. 16 Ifaac is promised. 23 Abraham and Ishmael are circumcifed.

ND when Abram was ninety years old and Amin when Abram was nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and faid unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou || perfect.

a

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, faying,

a

22.

1910.

1898.

Chap. 5. || Or, upright, or, fincere.

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of + many nations. + Heb. 5 Neither fhall thy name any more be called multitude of Abram; but thy name fhall be Abraham: for nations. a father of many nations have I made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings fhall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant; to be a God unto thee, and to thy feed after thee.

Rom.

17.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy feed after thee, the land + wherein thou art a ftranger, † Heb. of all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting poffef- thy fojourn fion; and I will be their God. ings.

9¶ And God faid unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy feed after thee, in their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep between me, and you, and thy feed after thee; Every man-child among you shall be circum- A&ts 7. 8. cifed.

12 And he that is eight days old fhall be circumcifed among you, every man-child in t Heb. a your generations; he that is born in the houfe, Jon of eight or bought with money of any ftranger, which is e Lev. 12. not of thy feed.

13 He that is born in thy houfe, and he that is Luke 2. 21. bought with thy money, muft needs be circum- John 7. 2âs cifed: and my covenant thall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcifed man-child, whofe flesh of his fore-fkin is not circumcifed, that foul fhall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

15 ¶ And

Ifaac is promised.

Before
Chrift
1898.

+ Heb.

he ball be

come na

tions.

f Chap. 18. 10. & 21.

2.

15 And God faid unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou fhalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah hall her name be.

16 And I will blefs her, and give thee a fon alfo of her: yea, I will blefs her, and the fhall be a mother of nations; kings of people fhall be of her.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and faid in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and fhall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham faid unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

19 And God faid, f Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a fon indeed; and thou fhalt call his name Ifaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his feed after him.

20 And as for Ifhmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have bleffed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly: Chap. 25. 8 twelve princes fhall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

16.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Ifaac, whom Sarah fhall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

23 ¶ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's houfe; and circumcifed the fleth of their fore-fkin, in the felf-fame day, as God had faid unto him.

24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his fore-skin.

25 And Ishmael his fon was thirteen years old when he was circumcifed in the flesh of his fore-skin.

26 In the felf-fame day was Abraham circumcifed, and Ishmael his fon.

27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcifed with him.

CHAP. XVIII.

1 Abraham entertaineth three angels. 9 Sarah is reproved for laughing at the strange promife. 17 The deftruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham: 23 Abraham maketh interceffion for the men thereof.

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ND the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he fat in the tentdoor in the heat of the day.

2 And he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and lo, three men ftood by him: and when he faw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

3 And faid, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy fight, pafs not away, I pray thee, from thy fervant :

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and reft yourselves under the tree:

Abraham entertaineth three angels.

5 And I will fetch a morfel of bread, and Before + comfort ye your hearts; after that you fhall Chrift pafs on: for therefore + are ye come to your fer- 1898. vant. And they faid, So do as thou haft faid. + Heb. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto fas. Sarah, and faid, + Make ready quickly three + Heb. measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes you bare upon the hearth.

7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hatted to drefs it.

8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dreffed, and fet it before them; and he stood by them under the tree: and they did eat.

9 And they faid unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he faid, Behold, in the tent.

b

pated. + Heb. Haften.

b

10 And he faid, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sa- Chap. 17 rah thy wife thall have a fon. And Sarah heard 19. & 21. it in the tent-door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well ftricken in age: and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herfelf, faying, After I am waxed old, fhall I have pleafure, my lord being old alfo?

2.

SI Pet 6.

13 And the LORD faid unto Abraham, Where- 6. fore did Sarah laugh, faying, Shall I of a furety bear a child, which am old?

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed will I return unto thee, ac-, cording to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a fon.

15 Then Sarah denied, faying, I laughed not: for the was afraid. And he faid, Nay, but thou didft laugh.

16¶ And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

17 And the LORD faid, Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do;

18 Seeing that Abraham fhall furely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth fhall be bleffed in him?

d.Chap. 12. For I know him, that he will command 3. & 22. 18. 19. his children and his houfhold after him, and they Acts 3. 25. fhall keep the way of the LORD, to do juftice Gal. 3. 8. and judgement; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

20 And the LORD faid, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their fin is very grievous;

21 I will go down now, and fee whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham ftood yet before the LORD.

23 And Abraham drew near, and faid, Wilt thou alfo destroy the righteous with the wicked?

24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou alfo deftroy, and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manb ner,