2. “What do you mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.’
3. As I live, declares the Lord Yahweh, it will surely not any longer be appropriate for you to quote this proverb in Israel!
4. Look! All lives are mine. The lives of father and son alike are mine. The person sinning will die.
5. And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness,
6. and on the mountains he does not eat and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile and he does not approach a woman of menstruation,
7. and he oppresses no one and he returns a pledge for his loan and he commits no robbery and he gives his bread to the hungry and he covers a naked person with a garment,
8. and he does not charge interest and he takes no usury, and he holds back his hand from injustice and he executes a judgment of fairness between persons,
9. and in my statutes he goes about and my regulations he keeps, performing faithfully —then he is righteous, and certainly he will live,” declares the Lord Yahweh.
10. “And now he has a son, a violent one, who sheds blood and does any of these things
11. (though he did not do all of these things), for the son also eats on the mountains and he defiles the wife of his neighbor.
12. He oppresses the needy and the poor, and he commits robbery, and he does not return a pledge for a loan, and he lifts his eyes to the idols so he does a detestable thing.
13. He charges interest and takes usury. Then, shall he live? He shall not live, for he did all of these detestable things. Surely he will die! His blood will be on him.
14. “And look! He has a son, and he sees all of the sin of his father that he did, and he sees it, but he does not do it.