²⁰The person,^j the one sinning, will die. A son shall not bear the guilt of the father, and a father shall not bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him; the wickedness of the wicked^k shall be on him. ²¹But if the wicked returns from all of his sins^l that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die! ²²All of his transgressions that he committed will not be remembered against^m him. Throughⁿ his righteousness that he has done he shall live. ²³Have I delight by any means^o in the death of the wicked, declares^p the Lord Yahweh, and not at his turning from his way, so that^q he lives? ²⁴And when the righteous turns^r from his righteousness, so that^s he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, then^t will he live because of all of his righteousness^u that he did? Those things will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his sin that he committed.^v Through^w them he shall die.

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Ezekiel 18:20: The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Footnotes

jOr “soul,” or “life”
kAccording to the reading tradition (Qere)
lAccording to the reading tradition (Qere)
mOr “for”
nOr “By means of”
oOr “in any way”
pLiterally “declaration of”
qLiterally “and”
rLiterally “at turning of the righteous”
sLiterally “and”
tOr “and”
uAccording to the reading tradition (Qere)
vLiterally “sin that he sinned”
wOr “in/by”