OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 18:21

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I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

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Verse 21. I will go down, and so forth The Lord here accommodates his discourse to the way of speaking and acting amongst men: for he knoweth all things, and needeth not to go any where for information.—Note here, that two of the three angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who represented the Lord, remained with Abraham.

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