Genesis Chapter 18 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV 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.
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BBE Genesis 18:16

And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.
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DARBY Genesis 18:16

And the men rose up thence, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to conduct them.
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KJV 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.
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WBT 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.
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WEB Genesis 18:16

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
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YLT Genesis 18:16

And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And the men rose up from thence, - Mamre (vide supra, Ver. 1) - and looked towards Sodom. Literally, toward the face (Rosenmüller), or towards the plain (Keil), of Sodom, as if intending to proceed thither. And Abraham went with them - across the mountains on the east of Hebron, as far as Caphar-barucha, according to tradition, whence a view can be obtained of the Dead Sea - solitudinem ac terras Sodomae (vide Keil, in loco) - to bring them on the way. Literally, to send them away, or accord them a friendly convoy over a portion of their journey.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) The men . . . looked toward Sodom.--This visitation of God combined mercy and love for Abraham, and through him for all mankind, with the punishment of men whose wickedness was so universal that there were none left among them to bear witness for God, and labour for a better state of things. There is a strange mingling of the human and the Divine in the narrative. Even after the fuller manifestation of themselves they are still called men, and Abraham continues to discharge the ordinary duties of hospitality by accompanying them as their guide. Their route would lie to the south-east, over the hill-country of Judah, and tradition represents Abraham as having gone with them as far as the village of Caphar-Barucha, whence it is possible through a deep ravine to see the Dead Sea.