Genesis 18

1Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:18 · Gen 14:13 · Gen 15:1 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 17:22 · +5 more

2He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,Cross-references: Gen 18:16 · Gen 18:22 · Gen 19:1 · Gen 23:7 · Gen 32:24 · Gen 33:3 · +11 more

3and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.Cross-references: Gen 32:5

4Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.Cross-references: Gen 19:2 · Gen 24:32 · Gen 43:24 · 1Sam 25:41 · Luke 7:44 · John 13:5 · +1 more

5I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”Cross-references: Gen 19:8 · Gen 33:10 · Judg 6:18 · Judg 13:15 · Judg 19:5 · Ps 104:15 · +2 more

6Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”Cross-references: Isa 32:8 · Matt 13:33 · Luke 10:38 · Acts 16:15 · Rom 12:13 · Gal 5:13 · +2 more

7Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.Cross-references: Gen 19:3 · Judg 13:15 · Amos 6:4 · Mal 1:14 · Matt 22:4 · Luke 15:23 · +2 more

8He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.Cross-references: Gen 19:3 · Deut 32:14 · Judg 5:25 · Judg 13:15 · Neh 12:44 · Luke 12:37 · +7 more

9They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”Cross-references: Gen 4:9 · Gen 24:67 · Gen 31:33 · Titus 2:5

10He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.Cross-references: Gen 16:10 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 17:19 · Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:13 · Gen 21:2 · +7 more

11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.Cross-references: Gen 17:17 · Gen 17:24 · Gen 31:35 · Lev 15:19 · Luke 1:7 · Luke 1:18 · +4 more

12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”Cross-references: Gen 17:17 · Gen 18:13 · Gen 21:6 · Ps 126:2 · Luke 1:18 · Luke 1:34 · +3 more

13Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’Cross-references: John 2:25

14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son.”Cross-references: Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:10 · Num 11:23 · Deut 7:21 · Deut 30:3 · 1Sam 14:6 · +24 more

15Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”Cross-references: Gen 4:9 · Gen 12:13 · Job 2:10 · Ps 44:21 · Prov 12:19 · Prov 28:13 · +8 more

16The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.Cross-references: Acts 15:3 · Acts 20:38 · Acts 21:5 · Rom 15:24 · 3John 1:6

17Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · 2Ki 4:27 · 2Chr 20:7 · Ps 25:14 · Amos 3:7 · John 15:15 · +1 more

18since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 26:4 · Ps 72:17 · Acts 3:25 · Gal 3:8 · +2 more

19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”Cross-references: Gen 17:23 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 6:6 · Deut 11:19 · Deut 32:46 · Josh 24:15 · +22 more

20Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Gen 13:13 · Gen 19:13 · Isa 3:9 · Isa 5:7 · Jer 14:7 · +2 more

21I 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.”Cross-references: Gen 11:5 · Gen 11:7 · Ex 3:8 · Ex 33:5 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 13:3 · +13 more

22The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 18:1 · Gen 18:16 · Gen 19:1 · Ps 106:23 · Jer 15:1 · Jer 18:20 · +3 more

23Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Gen 20:4 · Num 16:22 · 2Sam 24:17 · Job 8:3 · Job 34:17 · +6 more

24What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?Cross-references: Gen 18:32 · Isa 1:9 · Jer 5:1 · Matt 7:13 · Acts 27:24

25May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”Cross-references: Deut 32:4 · Job 8:3 · Job 8:20 · Job 9:22 · Job 34:17 · Ps 11:5 · +12 more

26Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”Cross-references: Isa 6:13 · Isa 10:22 · Isa 19:24 · Isa 65:8 · Jer 5:1 · Ezek 22:30 · +1 more

27Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 3:19 · Gen 18:30 · Ezra 9:6 · Job 4:19 · Job 30:19 · +10 more

28What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”Cross-references: Gen 18:26 · Gen 18:29 · Num 14:17 · 1Ki 20:32 · Job 23:3

29He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”Cross-references: Eph 6:18 · Heb 4:16

30He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”Cross-references: Gen 44:18 · Judg 6:39 · Esth 4:11 · Job 40:4 · Ps 9:12 · Ps 10:17 · +4 more

31He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”Cross-references: Gen 18:27 · Matt 7:7 · Matt 7:11 · Luke 11:8 · Luke 18:1 · Eph 6:18 · +2 more

32He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”Cross-references: Gen 18:30 · Ex 32:9 · Ex 32:14 · Ex 33:13 · Ex 34:6 · Ex 34:9 · +12 more

33Yahweh went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.Cross-references: Gen 18:16 · Gen 18:22 · Gen 31:55 · Gen 32:26