Discovery BoxEzekiel 16:3 
Context16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:45
Context16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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 22:11
Context22:11 One 4 commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates 5 his sister – his father’s daughter 6 – within you.
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 “a man.”
5 tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.
6 sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.
