18. Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on earth will be blessed because of him.
19. I have made a special agreement with him. I did this so that he would command his children and his descendants to live the way the Lord wants them to. I did this so that they would live right and be fair. Then I, the Lord, can give him what I promised.”
20. Then the Lord said, “I have heard many times that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah are very evil.