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13 engages in usury, and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die.[a] He will bear the responsibility for his own death.[b]

14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example.[c] 15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:13 tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.
  2. Ezekiel 18:13 tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”
  3. Ezekiel 18:14 tn Heb “and he sees and does not do likewise.”