Genesis 18:22

²⁰And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has been increased toward me, and their sins are very great.

²¹I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to me, and if not, that I may know.

— Genesis 18:22 —

²³And Abraham drew nigh and said, Wouldest thou destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

²⁴Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?