The Sayings of God

The Angels Warn Lot

Whom else do you have here? Your son-in-law, your sons and your daughters, and all you have in the city - bring out from this place, because we will destroy this place. Since their cry has grown before the Eternal, the Eternal has sent us to destroy it. - Genesis 19:12-13

Lot's Hospitality

No, for we will spend the night in the street. - Genesis 19:2

For the Sake of Ten (a Minyan)

For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it. - Genesis 18:32

For the Sake of Twenty

For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it. - Genesis 18:31

For the Sake of Thirty

If I should find thirty there, I will not do it. - Genesis 18:30

For the Sake of Forty

For the sake of forty, I will not do it. - Genesis 18:29

Abraham Negotiates with God

If I should find forty and five there, I will not destroy it. - Genesis 18:28

Will You Destroy the Righteous With the Wicked?

If I should find in Sodom, inside the city, fifty charitable men, I will bear with the entire place for their sakes. - Genesis 18:26

Sodom and Gomorrah

Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very heavy, I will descend now and see:if they have caused the cry coming to me - annihilation! If not, I will know. - Genesis 18:20-21

Abraham Sends the Angels on Their Way

Should I conceal from Abraham what I will do - when Abraham will indeed become a great and might nation, and all the nations of the world will be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his house after him to safeguard the way of the Eternal - to do charity and justice, in order for the Eternal to bring Abraham that which he has spoken of him. - Genesis 18:17-19

Sarah's Denial

No, because you laughed. - Genesis 18:15