Genesis 18:24

18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare ¹  the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Genesis 18:28

18:28 what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy ²  the whole city because five are lacking?” ³  He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

[18:24]  ¹ tn Heb “lift up,” perhaps in the sense of “bear with” (cf. NRSV “forgive”).

[18:28]  ² tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.

[18:28]  ³ tn Heb “because of five.”