18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer 3 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.
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 “lift up, bear.”