16 Then the men got up to leave and started out toward Sodom. Abraham walked along with them a short time to send them on their way.
17 The Lord said, “Should I tell Abraham what I am going to do now?
18 Abraham’s children will certainly become a great and powerful nation. And all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
19 I have chosen him so he would command his children and his descendants to live the way the Lord wants them to. I did this so they would live right and be fair. Then I, the Lord, will give Abraham what I promised him.”
20 Then the Lord said, “I have heard many things against the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are very evil.
21 So I will go down and see if they are as bad as I have heard.”
22 So the men turned and went toward Sodom. But Abraham stood there before the Lord.