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RBT Translation:
Perhaps there exists fifty righteous in the inner-part of the City654—really are you sweeping and not lifting to the Standing-place to the purpose of fifty of the Righteous who are in her inner-part?655
LITV Translation:
Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; is it so You will cut off and will not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones that are within it?
ESV Translation:
Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?

Footnotes

654

Parallel riddle of the hundred golden rings in the middle of the tabernacle covering of ten curtains of twined linen which themselves are embroidered with cherubim icons,

Fifty loops you are making in the Curtain of the One, and fifty loops you are making in the extremity of the Curtain which is in the Second People accepting the loops, a woman toward her sister.” Exodus 26:5 literal

In 2 Kings 1 we read the narrative of three princes of fifty and each of their fifty men (totaling 150) over three revolutions.

And he is turning back and is sending toward him a prince of fifty following, and his fifty…” 2 Kings 1:11 literal

655

Strong’s #7130, qereb. Inward part of body, entrails, gut. Based on the verb qarab (#7126) to come near.

And he has caused to come near [qarab] from a sacrifice of the Complete-offering of fire to Yahweh אֶת-the Covering Fat, אֶת-the Inward-part [qereb], and אֶת-the whole of the Fat which is over the Inward-part [qereb].” Leviticus 3:3 literal