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owne head. 20 And I wil spread my net vpon him, neighbours wife, 12 Or hath oppressed the poore
and he shalbe taken in my net, and I wil bring and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath
him to Babel, and will enter into iudgement with not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes
him there for his trespas that he hath committed vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,
against me. 21 And all that flee from him with all 13 Or hath giuen forth vpon vsurie, or hath taken
his hoste, shall fall by the sword, and they that increase, shall he liue? he shall not liue: seeing
remaine, shalbe scattered towarde all the windes: he hath done all these abominations, he shall
and ye shall know that I the Lord haue spoken it. die the death, and his blood shall be vpon him.
22 Thus saith the Lord God, I wil also take off the 14 But if he beget a sonne, that seeth all his fathers
top of this hie cedar, and wil set it, and cut off the sinnes, which he hath done, and feareth, neither
top of the tender plant thereof, and I wil plant doeth such like, 15 That hath not eaten vpon
it vpon an hie mountaine and great. 23 Euen in the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to
the hie mountaine of Israel will I plant it: and it the idols of ye house of Israel, nor hath defiled
shall bring forth boughes and beare fruite, and be his neighbours wife, 16 Neither hath oppressed
an excellent cedar, and vnder it shall remaine all any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither
birds, and euery foule shall dwell in the shadow hath spoyled by violence, but hath giuen his
of the branches thereof. 24 And all the trees of the bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked
fielde shall knowe that I the Lord haue brought with a garment, 17 Neither hath withdrawen his
downe the hie tree, and exalted the lowe tree, hand from the afflicted, nor receiued vsurie nor
that I haue dried vp the greene tree, and made increase, but hath executed my iudgements, and
the drie tree to florish: I the Lord haue spoken it, hath walked in my statutes, he shall not die in
and haue done it. the iniquitie of his father, but he shall surely liue.
18 18 His father, because he cruelly oppressed and
1 The worde of the Lord came vnto me againe, spoyled his brother by violence, and hath not
saying, 2 What meane ye that ye speake this done good among his people, loe, euen he dyeth
prouerbe, concerning the land of Israel, saying, in his iniquitie. 19 Yet say ye, Wherefore shall
The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the not the sonne beare the iniquitie of the father?
childrens teeth are set on edge? As I liue, sayth because ye sonne hath executed iudgement and
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the Lord God, ye shall vse this prouerbe no more iustice, and hath kept all my statutes, and done
in Israel. Beholde, all soules are mine, both the them, he shall surely liue, 20 The same soule that
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soule of the father, and also the soule of the sonne sinneth, shall die: the sonne shall not beare the
are mine: the soule that sinneth, it shall die. But iniquitie of the father, neither shall the father
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if a man be iust, and doe that which is lawfull, and beare the iniquitie of the sonne, but the righ-
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right, And hath not eaten vpon the mountaines, teousnes of the righteous shall be vpon him, and
neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles of the the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon him
house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neigh- selfe. 21 But if the wicked will returne from all
bours wife, neither hath lyen with a menstruous his sinnes that he hath committed, and keepe
woman, Neither hath oppressed any, but hath all my statutes, and doe that which is lawfull
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restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath and right, he shall surely liue, and shall not die.
spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed,
bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked they shall not be mentioned vnto him, but in
with a garment, 8 And hath not giuen foorth his righteousnes that he hath done, he shall liue.
vpon vsurie, neither hath taken any increase, but 23 Haue I any desire that the wicked should die,
hath withdrawen his hand from iniquitie, and sayth the Lord God? or shall he not liue, if he
hath executed true iudgement betweene man returne from his wayes? 24 But if the righteous
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and man, And hath walked in my statutes, and turne away from his righteousnes, and commit
hath kept my iudgements to deale truely, he is iniquitie, and doe according to all the abomina-
iust, he shall surely liue, sayth the Lord God. tions, that the wicked man doeth, shall he liue?
10 If he beget a sonne, that is a thiefe, or a all his righteousnes that he hath done, shall not
sheader of blood, if he do any one of these things, be mentioned: but in his transgression that he
11 Though he doe not all these things, but either hath committed, and in his sinne that he hath
hath eaten vpon the mountaines, or defiled his sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet ye say, The