Verse 2
Genesis 18:2
World English Bible, British Edition
2
He 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,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשָּׂ֤א עֵינָי/ו֙ וַ/יַּ֔רְא וְ/הִנֵּה֙ שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה אֲנָשִׁ֔ים נִצָּבִ֖ים עָלָ֑י/ו וַ/יַּ֗רְא וַ/יָּ֤רָץ לִ/קְרָאתָ/ם֙ מִ/פֶּ֣תַח הָ/אֹ֔הֶל וַ/יִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ אָֽרְצָ/ה
English Translation
I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, three men were standing near me, and when I saw, I ran to meet them from the entrance of the tent and bowed down to the ground.
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Chapter 18 Context
1
The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door
in the heat of the day.
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2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him.
When he saw them, he ran to...
3
and said, “My lord, if now I have found favour in your sight, please
don’t go away from your servant...
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4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves
under the tree.
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5
I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that
you may go your way, now that...
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6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare
three seahs of fine meal, knead i...
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7
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave
it to the servant. He hurried...
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8
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before
them. He stood by them un...
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9
They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “There, in the tent.”
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10
He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time
next year; and behold, Sarah your wife w...
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11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed
the age of childbearing.
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12
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will
I have pleasure, my lord being ol...
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13
The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will
I really bear a child when I am old?’
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14
Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to
you, when the season comes aroun...
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15
Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was
afraid.
He said, “No, but you did laugh....
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16
The men rose up from there, and looked towards Sodom. Abraham
went with them to see them on their wa...
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17
The LORD said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
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18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all
the nations of the earth will be...
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19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and
his household after him, that...
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20
The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and
because their sin is very grievo...
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21
I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports
which have come to me. If...
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22
The men turned from there, and went towards Sodom, but Abraham
stood yet before the LORD.
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23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the
wicked?
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24
What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume
and not spare the place for the...
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25
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous
with the wicked, so that the ri...
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26
The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the
city, then I will spare the whole plac...
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27
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the
Lord, although I am dust and a...
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28
What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy
all the city for lack of five?...
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29
He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty
found there?”
He said, “I will not do...
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30
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak.
What if there are thirty found there?”
H...
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31
He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the
Lord. What if there are twenty found th...
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32
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just
once more. What if ten are found the...
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33
The LORD went his way as soon as he had finished communing with
Abraham, and Abraham returned to his...
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