⁴ Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

³ Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

⁷ Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

³⁰ And he said unto him, 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.

³¹ 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 twenty's sake.

³² 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 ten's sake.