Lexicon :: Strong's H2399 - ḥēṭ'

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I remember my faults.

“Do not harbor hatred against your brother.[fn] Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

“If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his uncle;[fn] they will bear their guilt and die childless.

“They must keep my instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am the LORD who sets them apart.

“And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

“But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

“The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

“You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ holy offerings, so that you will not die.”

“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among Korah’s followers, who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.

“Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.

“One witness cannot establish any iniquity or sin against a person, whatever that person has done. A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

“Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

“If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

“You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty.

but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit ​— ​worshiping the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.

The silver from the guilt offering and the sin offering was not brought to the LORD’s temple since it belonged to the priests.

However, he did not put the children of the killers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the LORD commanded, “Fathers are not to be put to death because of children, and children are not to be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”

However, he did not put their children to death, because ​— ​as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded ​— ​“Fathers are not to die because of children, and children are not to die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”

Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;

I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Turn your face away[fn] from my sins

and blot out all my guilt.

He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve

or repaid us according to our iniquities.

If the ruler’s anger rises against you, don’t leave your post,

for calmness puts great offenses to rest.

“Come, let’s settle this,”

says the LORD.

“Though your sins are scarlet,

they will be as white as snow;

though they are crimson red,

they will be like wool.

For on that day, every one of you will reject the worthless idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

Indeed, it was for my own well-being

that I had such intense bitterness;

but your love has delivered me

from the Pit of destruction,

for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.

Therefore I will give him[fn] the many as a portion,

and he will receive[fn] the mighty as spoil,

because he willingly submitted to death,

and was counted among the rebels;

yet he bore the sin of many

and interceded for the rebels.

Jerusalem has sinned grievously;

therefore, she has become an object of scorn.[fn]

All who honored her now despise her,

for they have seen her nakedness.

She herself groans and turns away.

Why should any living person complain,

any man, because of the punishment for his sins?

“They will punish you for your depravity, and you will bear the consequences for your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.”

Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, may your anger and wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.

But Ephraim thinks,

“How rich I have become;

I made it all myself.

In all my earnings,

no one can find any iniquity in me

that I can be punished for! ”[fn]