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Genesis 18:16

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

KJV

Cum ergo surrexissent inde viri, direxerunt oculos contra Sodomam : et Abraham simul gradiebatur, deducens eos.

Vulgate

Ἐξαναστάντες δὲ ἐκεῖθεν οἱ ἄνδρες κατέβλεψαν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρας· Ἀβραὰμ δὲ συνεπορεύετο μετ’ αὐτῶν συνπροπέμπων αὐτούς.

LXX

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

ASV

וַ/יָּקֻ֤מוּ מִ/שָּׁם֙ הָֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וַ/יַּשְׁקִ֖פוּ עַל פְּנֵ֣י סְדֹ֑ם וְ/אַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הֹלֵ֥ךְ עִמָּ֖/ם לְ/שַׁלְּחָֽ/ם

Hebrew

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People Abraham

In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אַבְרָהָ֖ם
'brhm
proper_noun · 174×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
הוֹלֵ֣ךְ
hvlk
verb · 507×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
נִשְׁקְפָ֣ה
nshqph
verb · 22×
סְדֹ֣ם
sdm
proper_noun · 39×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.

Cross-references

  • Gen 18:2 — And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,