And the LORde apeared vnto him in the okegrove of Mamre as he sat in his tent doze in the heate of the daye. And he lyfte vp his eyes and looked: &abar;d lo / thre men stode not farr from hym. And wh&ebar; he sawe them / he ran agenst them from the tent dore / and fell to the grounde and sayde: LORde yf I haue founde fauoure in thy syght / goo not by thi seruaunte. Let a litle water be fett / ∧ wash youre fete / and rest youre selves vnder the tree: And I will fett a morsell of breed / to comforte youre hartes wythall. And th&abar; goo youre wayes / for even therfore ar ye come to youre servaunte. And they answered: Do even so as thou hast sayde.

And Abrah&abar; went a pace in to his tent vnto Sara &abar;d sayde: make redy att once thre peckes of fyne meale / kneade it and make cakes. And Abraham ran vnto his beastes and fett a calfe that was tendre and good / and gaue it vnto a yonge man which made it redy attonce. And he toke butter ∧ mylcke and the calfe which he had prepared / and sett it before them / and stode hymselfe by them vnder the tree: and they ate.

And they sayde vnto him: Where is Sara thy wife? And he sayde: in the tent. And he sayde: I will come agayne vnto the as soone as the frute can lyue. And loo: Sara thy wife shall haue a sonne. That herde Sara / out of the tent doore which was behind his backe. Abraham and Sara were both olde and well stryken in age / and it ceased to be with Sara after the maner as it is wyth wyves. And Sara laughed in hir selfe saynge: Now I am waxed olde / shall I geue my selfe to lust / and my lorde olde also?

Than sayd the LORde vnto Abrah&abar;: wherfore doth Sara laughe saynge: shal I of a suertie bere a childe / now when I am olde? is the thinge to harde for the LORde to do? In the tyme appoynted will I returne vnto the / as soone as the frute can haue lyfe / And Sara shall haue a sonne. Than Sara denyed it saynge: I laughed not / for she was afrayde. But he sayde: yes thou laughtest.

Than the men stode vp from thence &abar;d loked towarde Sodome. And Abraham went with them to brynge them on the waye. And the LORde sayde: Can I hyde from Abraham that thinge which I am aboute to do / seynge that Abraham shall be a great &abar;d a myghtie people / and all the nations of the erth shalbe blessed in him? For I knowe him that he will commaunde his childern and

his housholde after him / þt; they kepe the waye of the LORde / to do after righte and conscyence / that the LORde may brynge vppon Abraham that he hath promysed him.

And the LORde sayde? The crie of Sodome and Gomorra is great / and there synne is excedynge grevous. I will go downe and see whether they haue done all to gedder acordynge to that crye which is come vnto me or not / that I may knowe. And the m&ebar; departed th&ebar;ce and went to Sodomeward. But Abraham stode yet before þe; LORde / ∧ drewe nere ∧ sayde

Wylt thou destroy the rightwes with the wyked? Yf there be .l. rightwes within the cyte / wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of .l. rightwes that are therin? That be farre from the / that thou shuldest do after thys maner / to sley the rightwes with the weked / &abar;d that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that befarre from the. Shulde not the iudge of all þe; worlde do acordynge to righte? And the LORde sayde: Yf I fynde in Sodome .l. rightwes within the cyte / I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And Abraham answered and sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto þe; LORde / &abar;d yet am but dust &abar;d asshes. What though there lacke .v. of .l. rightwes / wylt thou destroy all the cyte for lacke of .v? And he sayde: Yf I fynde there .xl. and .v. I will not destroy them.

And he spake vnto him yet agayne and sayde:

what yf there be .xl. fo&ubar;de there: And he sayde: I wyll not do it for forties sake. And he sayde: O let not my LORde be angrye / that I speake. What yf there be fo&ubar;de .xxx. there? And he sayde: I will not do it / yf I finde .xxx. there. And be sayde: Oh / se / I haue begonne to speake vnto my LORde / what yf there be .xx. founde there? And he sayde: I will not distroy th&ebar; for tw&ebar;ties sake. And he sayde: O let not my LORde be angrye / that I speake yet / but eu&ebar; once more only. What yf ten be founde there?. And he sayde: I will not destroy th&ebar; for .x. sake.

And the LORde w&ebar;t his waye as soone as he had lefte comenynge with Abrah&abar;. And Abraham returned vnto his place

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