June 30th, 2025, Monday of the 13th week in ordinary time.

A reading from the book of Genesis.

Abraham and the men who had visited him by the Terribinth of Mamry

set out from there and looked down towards Sodom.

Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way. The Lord reflected, shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, now that he is to become a great

and populous nation, and all the nations of the earth are to find blessing in him?

Indeed, I have singled him out, that he may direct his children and his household after him

to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord may carry into effect for Abraham the promises he made about

him.

Then the Lord said,

The outcry against Sodom and Gamara is so great, and their sin so grave,

that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me.

I mean to find out.

While the two men walked on farther towards Sodom, the Lord remained standing before Abraham.

Then Abraham drew nearer to him and said,

Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?

Suppose there were 50 innocent people in the city.

Would you wipe out the place rather than spare it for the sake of the 50 innocent people within it?

Far be it from you to do such a thing to make the innocent die with the guilty,

so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike.

Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?

The Lord replied, If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

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