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And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
2175. 'And he said' means as it related to the Lord's state of perception at that time. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical sense as perceiving, dealt with already in 1898, 1919, 2080.
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