The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
KJV
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
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And the men turned their faces from thence,.... From the place to which Abraham brought them on; these were only two of them, for the third continued with Abraham:
and went towards Sodom; and are the two angels said to come thither at evening,
Gen 19:1
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but Abraham stood yet before the Lord; before the third person, whom Abraham now began to know more clearly; he stood before him with all reverence and humility, to hear what he had further to say to him, as well as to say something to him himself; he stood "yet", he continued to stand after the departure of the two angels that were gone to Sodom. Onkelos and Jonathan paraphrase it,"he ministered in prayer before the Lord.''
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