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 22:12
22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 3 you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 4 declares the sovereign Lord. 5
Ezekiel 40:46
40:46 and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”
Ezekiel 48:11
48:11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. 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.”
3 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.
4 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.
5 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.
6 tn Heb “strayed off.”