The Lord, feeling lonely, showed up at Abraham’s door again in the guise of three men. Abraham, not wanting to be rude, ordered his wife to cook up some bread and invited the men to hang out for a bit. In the meantime, he went off and slaughtered a cow for a barbecue. Not much is said as to what the three men did during the entire time Abraham was killing, dressing, and cooking a cow, but we assume foosball was involved.
Midsentence, the three men turn into one guy (God, of course), who says Sarah will bear a son. Sarah, having been through menopause, laughs heartily at this, which puts God right on the defensive.
In order to change the subject, God starts talking about the nastiness going on in Sodom and Gommorah. He muses that he should probably just destroy these cities, forgetting the lessons he learned a few chapters back about the inherent evil in Man.
Abraham, in an attempt to prove that all used car salesmen spring from his lineage, goes on to try and convince God to spare these cities through the power of bargaining. Initially, God says that he will spare the towns if he can just find 50 righteous people within them. After hours of mind-numbing negotiation, God eventually agrees to spare the city if at least 10 righteous people can be found.
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