27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I, who am dust and ashes, have taken upon me to speak to the Lord.
28. Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
29. And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Peradventure there will be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.