{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis", "chapter": 18 }, "data": { "n": 18, "bookSlug": "genesis", "bookCode": "GEN", "refId": "", "title": "The three visitors at Mamre: a son promised + Abraham pleads for Sodom", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-18:1", "verseRef": "Gen.18.1", "text": "And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-18:2", "verseRef": "Gen.18.2", "text": "and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth," },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-18:3", "verseRef": "Gen.18.3", "text": "and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-18:4", "verseRef": "Gen.18.4", "text": "let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-18:5", "verseRef": "Gen.18.5", "text": "and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-18:6", "verseRef": "Gen.18.6", "text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-18:7", "verseRef": "Gen.18.7", "text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hasted to dress it." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-18:8", "verseRef": "Gen.18.8", "text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-18:9", "verseRef": "Gen.18.9", "text": "And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-18:10", "verseRef": "Gen.18.10", "text": "And he said, I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-18:11", "verseRef": "Gen.18.11", "text": "Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-18:12", "verseRef": "Gen.18.12", "text": "And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-18:13", "verseRef": "Gen.18.13", "text": "And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-18:14", "verseRef": "Gen.18.14", "text": "Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-18:15", "verseRef": "Gen.18.15", "text": "Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-18:16", "verseRef": "Gen.18.16", "text": "And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-18:17", "verseRef": "Gen.18.17", "text": "And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do;" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-18:18", "verseRef": "Gen.18.18", "text": "seeing that Abraham had surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-18:19", "verseRef": "Gen.18.19", "text": "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 Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-18:20", "verseRef": "Gen.18.20", "text": "And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-18:21", "verseRef": "Gen.18.21", "text": "I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-18:22", "verseRef": "Gen.18.22", "text": "And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-18:23", "verseRef": "Gen.18.23", "text": "And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-18:24", "verseRef": "Gen.18.24", "text": "Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-18:25", "verseRef": "Gen.18.25", "text": "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-18:26", "verseRef": "Gen.18.26", "text": "And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GEN-18:27", "verseRef": "Gen.18.27", "text": "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GEN-18:28", "verseRef": "Gen.18.28", "text": "peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GEN-18:29", "verseRef": "Gen.18.29", "text": "And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty`s sake." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "GEN-18:30", "verseRef": "Gen.18.30", "text": "And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "GEN-18:31", "verseRef": "Gen.18.31", "text": "And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty`s sake." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "GEN-18:32", "verseRef": "Gen.18.32", "text": "And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten`s sake." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "GEN-18:33", "verseRef": "Gen.18.33", "text": "And Jehovah went his way, as soon as he had left off communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/18", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }