Ezekiel 18:1-6

1 The word of ADONAI came to me:
2 "What does it mean, that you keep quoting this proverb in the land of Isra'el 'When parents eat sour grapes, their children's teeth are set on edge'?
3 "As I live," says Adonai ELOHIM, "I swear that you will never again quote this proverb in Isra'el.
4 Look, all lives belong to me - both the parent's life and the child's life are equally mine - so it is the person who sins, himself, who must die.
5 "Consider someone who is righteous, who does what is lawful and right.
6 He doesn't eat on the mountains or raise his eyes toward the idols of the house of Isra'el; he doesn't defile his neighbor's wife or touch a woman during her time of menstrual impurity;
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