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“As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord,[a] you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore! Indeed! All lives are mine—the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one[b] who sins will die.

“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:3 tn This expression occurs often in Ezekiel (5:11; 14:16, 18, 20; 16:48; 17:16, 19; 20:3, 31, 33; 33:11, 27; 34:8; 35:6, 11).
  2. Ezekiel 18:4 tn Heb “life.”