¹⁵ “If I were to make wild animals pass throughout the land, so that they kill its residents^[a] and it were to become desolate because no one will travel through it due to those wild animals,^{[b] 16} then even though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they wouldn’t be able to deliver even their sons or daughters. They would only save themselves, but the land would become desolate.

¹⁷ “Or if I were to bring war to^[c] that land and say, ‘Hey, sword! Pass throughout the land so I can destroy both man and beasts in it,’