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Ezekiel 18 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Eze 18:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 18:2Son of man, what mean ye by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?
Eze 18:3As I live, saith the Lord, surely this parable shall no more be spoken in Israel.
Eze 18:4For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
Eze 18:5But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness,
Eze 18:6who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbour's wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed,
Eze 18:7and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;
Eze 18:8and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbour,
Eze 18:9and has walked in my commandments and kept mine ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith the Lord.
Eze 18:10And if he beget a mischievous son, shedding blood and committing sins,
Eze 18:11who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbour's wife,
Eze 18:12and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,
Eze 18:13has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Eze 18:14And if he beget a son, and the son see all his father's sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them,
Eze 18:15and if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbour's wife,
Eze 18:16and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,
Eze 18:17and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.
Eze 18:18But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.
Eze 18:19But ye will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgment and mercy, has kept all my statutes, and done them, he shall surely live.
Eze 18:20But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.
Eze 18:21And if the transgressor turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall by no means die.
Eze 18:22None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.
Eze 18:23Shall I at all desire the death of the sinner, saith the Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?
Eze 18:24But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.
Eze 18:25Yet ye have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight?
Eze 18:26When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass which he has committed, he shall even die in it.
Eze 18:27And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul,
Eze 18:28and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 18:29Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not my way right, O house of Israel? is not your way wrong?
Eze 18:30I will judge you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.
Eze 18:31Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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