And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sakes.

And Jehovah saith, 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'

And the Lord said to him, "If I find in Sodom fifty of the just in the midst of the city, I will release the entire place because of them."

Et dixit Jehova, Si invenero in Sedom quinquaginta justos intra civitatem, parcam toti loco propter eos.

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom (m) fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
(m) God declares that his judgments were done with great mercy, even though all were so corrupt that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the sake of the righteous.

If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,.... Sodom is particularly mentioned because Lot dwelt there, and being the metropolis, and the city of greatest note, as Jarchi observes, it is put for the rest; and the sense is, if fifty righteous persons could be found in all the five cities, mercy should be shown them:
then will I spare all the place for their sakes; not Sodom only, but the whole country, of which Sodom was the chief; the Lord takes up and agrees to the number Abraham pitched upon, and grants the request he makes.