018:012 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 018:013 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' 018:014 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son." 018:015 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh." 018:016 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. 018:017 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, 018:018 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? 018:019 For 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." 018:020 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 018:021 I 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." 018:022 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh. 018:023 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? 018:024 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? 018:025 Be it 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?" 018:026 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." 018:027 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. 018:028 What 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." 018:029 He 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." 018:030 He 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." 018:031 He 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." 018:032 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more.