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Ezekiel 18:18

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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 22:12

Context
22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 1  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 2  declares the sovereign Lord. 3 

Ezekiel 22:29

Context
22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. 4 

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[22:12]  1 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

[22:12]  2 sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

[22:12]  3 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.

[22:29]  1 tn Heb “and the foreigner they have oppressed without justice.”



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