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13 When he lends money to people, he wants them to pay back a lot more money to him.

A man like that will not continue to live! He will certainly die, because he himself has done all these disgusting things. He is guilty, so he himself must die as his punishment.

14 But this wicked man might have a son himself. The son sees all the sins that his father has done. He thinks about them. Then he decides that he will not live as his father has lived. 15 He does not go up the mountains to eat the food of idols. He does not pray to the idols that other Israelites worship. He does not have sex with another man's wife.

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13 He lends at interest and takes a profit.(A)

Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.(B)

14 “But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:(C)

15 “He does not eat at the mountain shrines(D)
    or look to the idols(E) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

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