Ezekiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ¹  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; ²  he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:28

18:28 Because he considered ³  and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

¹ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

² tn 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.”

³ tn Heb “he saw.”