³⁰ Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose thirty should be found there?”

So He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

³¹ And he said, “Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found there?”

So He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”

³² Then he said, ^(A)“Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?”

^(B)And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.”

²⁷ Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am ^(A)but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: