Discovery BoxEzekiel 18:20 
Context18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer 1 for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer 2 for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. 3
Ezekiel 33:12
Context33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 4 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 5 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 6 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 7 if he sins.’ 8
1 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
2 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
3 tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”
4 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
5 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
6 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
7 tn Heb “by it.”
8 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”
