Eze 18:17 | NETfull | STEP | refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:17

17 refrains from wrongdoing, ^{▼▼ This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.} does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; ^{▼▼ Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”} he will surely live.