Discovery BoxEzekiel 11:12 
Context11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”
Ezekiel 18:17
Context18:17 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 18:19
Context18:19 “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.
Ezekiel 18:21
Context18:21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
Ezekiel 33:15
Context33:15 He 4 returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, 5 committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.
Ezekiel 44:24
Context44:24 “‘In a controversy they will act as judges; 6 they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe 7 my Sabbaths.
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.”
4 tn Heb “the wicked one.”
5 tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”
6 sn For a historical illustration of the priest carrying out this function, see 2 Chr 19:9-11.
7 tn Heb “sanctify, set apart.”
