1. The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
2. What mean ye, that ye use this saying concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
3. As I live, said the Lord GOD, ye shall never again have reason to use this saying in Israel.
4. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.
5. But if a man is just and does judgment and righteousness,
6. that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither defile his neighbour’s wife, neither come near to the menstruous woman,
7. neither oppress any, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment,
8. neither lends at interest, neither takes any increase, withdraws his hand from iniquity, executes true judgment between man and man,
9. walks in my statutes, and keeps my rights, to do according to the truth: he is just; he shall surely live, said the Lord GOD.
10. If he begets a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that does the like of any one of these things,
11. and that does not do any of those duties, but, on the other hand, he does eat upon the mountains, or defiles his neighbour’s wife,
12. oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, or lifts up his eyes to the idols, or makes an abomination,
13. gives forth upon usury and takes increase, shall he then live? He shall not live; he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
14. But if he begets a son that sees all his father’s sins which he has done and seeing them, does not do according to them,
15. that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lifts up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiles his neighbour’s wife,