13. “When I say to the righteous that he shall live, and he has trusted in his righteousness, and shall do unrighteousness, none of his righteousness shall be remembered, but because of his unrighteousness that he has done, he shall die.
14. “Again, when I say to the wrong, ‘You shall certainly die,’ if he turns from his sin and does right and righteousness,
15. if the wrong restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the laws of life without doing crookedness, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.
16. “None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him – he has done right and righteousness; he shall certainly live.
17. “And the children of your people have said, ‘The way of יהוה is not fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair!
18. “When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, he shall die because of it.
19. “But when the wrong turns from his wrongness and does right and righteousness, he shall live because of it.
20. “And you have said, ‘The way of יהוה is not fair.’ O house of Yisra’ĕl, I shall judge every one of you according to his own ways.”
21. And it came to be in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped from Yerushalayim came to me and said, “The city has been smitten!”
22. And the hand of יהוה came upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth, before he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened. And I was no longer silent.
23. Then the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
24. “Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Yisra’ĕl are saying, ‘Aḇraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many, let the land be given to us as a possession.’