Ezekiel 18:18

18:18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:7

22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt ¹  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow ²  within you.

Ezekiel 18:14

18:14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example. ³ 

Ezekiel 18:4

18:4 Indeed! All lives are mine – the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one ⁴  who sins will die.

Ezekiel 18:20

18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer ⁵  for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer ⁶  for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 16:3

16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:45

16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 44:25

44:25 “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; ⁸  however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.

Ezekiel 18:19

18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer ⁹  for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). ¹⁰  He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, ¹¹  defiles his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ¹²  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; ¹³  he will surely live.

Ezekiel 22:11

22:11 One ¹⁴  commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates ¹⁵  his sister – his father’s daughter ¹⁶  – within you.

Ezekiel 22:10

22:10 They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ¹⁷  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ¹⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

² tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.

¹ tn Heb “and he sees and does not do likewise.”

¹ tn Heb “life.”

¹ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

² tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

³ tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”

¹ sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).

¹ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

¹ tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

² sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

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.”

¹ tn Heb “a man.”

² tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.

³ sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.

¹ tn Heb “the nakedness of a father one uncovers within you.” The ancient versions read the verb as plural (“they uncover”). If the singular is retained, it must be taken as indefinite and representative of the entire group. The idiomatic expression “uncover the nakedness” refers here to sexual intercourse (cf. Lev 18:6). To uncover a father’s nakedness could include sexual relations with one’s own mother (Lev 18:7), but more likely it refers to having intercourse with another wife of one’s father, such as a stepmother (Lev 18:8; cf. Gen 35:22; 49:4).

² tn Heb “(one who is) unclean due to the impurity they humble within you.” The use of the verb “to humble” suggests that these men forced themselves upon women during menstruation. Having sexual relations with a woman during her period was forbidden by the Law (Lev 18:19; 20:18).