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And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I findthirty there.
2267. That 'perhaps the fifty righteous persons will lack five' means if it were something less is clear from the meaning of 'five' as small or less. The meaning of this number is dealt with in Volume One, in 649; and what 'the fifty righteous persons' means has been shown above in 2252.
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