16 “Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.(A)

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16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.(A)

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However, he did not put the children of the murderers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death because of children, and children must not be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”(A)

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Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law(A) of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:6 Deut. 24:16

10 They killed these 10 sons(A) of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.(B) However, they did not seize[a] any plunder.(C)

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  1. Esther 9:10 Lit not put their hands on

10 the ten sons(A) of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.(B) But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.(C)

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