Genesis 18:29
“And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 18Meaning
Abraham proposes forty righteous people, and the LORD answers that he will not act against the city for the sake of forty.
Read carefully
The repetition is deliberate narrative negotiation, not an invitation to calculate present-day communities by the same numbers.
Reflection
The verse shows intercession sustained through repetition rather than abandoned after one favorable response.