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 ¹  who sins will die.

Ezekiel 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). ²  He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, ³  defiles his neighbor’s wife,

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 ⁴  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow ⁵  within you.

Ezekiel 44:25

44:25 “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; ⁶  however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.

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¹ tn Heb “life.”

² tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

³ sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

⁴ tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

⁵ 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.

⁶ sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).