018:011 and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten
on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
018:012 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not
restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,
has committed abomination,
018:013 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then
live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations;
he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.
018:014 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins,
which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
018:015 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled
his neighbor's wife,
018:016 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge,
neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread
to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
018:017 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received
interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked
in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father,
he shall surely live.
018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother,
and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall
die in his iniquity.
018:019 Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity
of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful
and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them,
he shall surely live.
018:020 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear
the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous
shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
be on him.
018:021 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed,
and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right,
he shall surely live, he shall not die.
018:022 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be
remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has
done he shall live.
018:023 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh;
and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
018:024 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness,
and commits iniquity, and does according to all the
abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live?
None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered:
in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin
that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
018:025 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal?
Aren't your ways unequal?
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