appeared before the oak in Mamre, at his sitting near the door of his tent
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.
And he said, O Lord, if surely I found favor before you, you should not go by your servant.
Let there be taken now water, and let them wash your feet, and be cooled under the tree!
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!
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!
And to and he took a tender young calf and gave it to the servant; and he hastened to prepare it.
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.
And he said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And answering he said, Behold, in the tent.
And he said, Returning, I will come to you according to this time to and will have And Sarah heard by the door of the tent, being behind him.
And Abraham and Sarah advanced of days, ceased to be in the feminine ways.
laughed in herself, saying, For not yet has it happened to me until now, and my lord
And to Abraham, Why Sarah laughed in herself, saying, Indeed is it truly I will bear, and I have grown old?
impossible At this time to I will return to you, and there will be to Sarah a son.
denied saying, I did not laugh; for she feared. And he said to her, No, but you laughed!
And having risen up from there, the men looked down upon of Sodom and Gomorrah. And Abraham went with them, escorting them.
And the said, No way shall I hide from Abraham my servant what I do.
to Abraham he will be nation and shall be blessed
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 upon Abraham all as much as he said to him.
said of Sodom and Gomorrah has multiplied towards me, and their sins exceedingly.
Going down then, I will see if their cry, the cry coming to me and if not, that I may know.
And turning back from there, the men came unto Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before
And Abraham approaching, said, You would not destroy together with and will be as the impious?
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?
By no means shall you do as this saying, to kill with and shall be as the impious; by no means, O one judging all the earth. Will you not execute judgment?
said 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.
And Abraham responding said, Now that I began to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.
But if may be lessened 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.
And he added yet to speak to him. And he said, But if there forty? And he said, No way should I destroy because of the forty.
And he said, Much less, O Lord, if I may speak, but if there thirty? And he said, No way will I destroy because of the thirty.
And he said, Since I have to the Lord, but if there twenty? And he said, No way will I destroy if I should find there twenty.
And he said, Much less, O Lord, if I may speak still once more, but if there ten? And he said, No way will I destroy because of the ten.
went forth as he ceased speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.