2“Son of man, why do you speak this parable in the land of Israel, and you are saying, ‘The parents ate sour grapes and the teeth of the children are set on edge?’

3As I am living, says THE LORD OF LORDS, no one will speak this parable again in Israel! 4Because all souls are mine. The soul of the father and the soul of the son, they are mine! The soul that sins, that shall die!

5And if a man will be righteous and he will do justice and righteousness 6And he does not eat upon the mountains and does not lift his eyes to idols and to the dreaded things of the children of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he has not defiled and he has not touched a woman in her menstruation 7And he does not cheat a man and does not harm a man, and returns a security payment that he took, and he gives his bread to the hungry, and he clothes the naked with a garment 8And he does not lend with interest, and he does not make payment with cut rate and he turns his hand from evil, and he judges a judgment of truth between a man with his neighbor 9And he walks in my commands and he keeps my judgments, and he practices the truth, he who does so is righteous, and he shall surely live, says THE LORD OF LORDS

10And if he will beget a son, an evil shedder of blood, and he will do one of these things 11And he will eat on the mountains or will defile the wife of his neighbor 12Or he will cheat the poor or the afflicted or will oppress his neighbor or he will not return a security payment to its owners or lifts his eyes to idols or he will commit an abomination 13Or he will lend with interest or has taken with cut rates, shall he live? He shall not live, because he did all these evil things, but he shall surely die, and his blood shall be upon him

14And if he will beget a son and he will see all of the sins that his father did and he will not do like them 15And he will not eat upon the mountains, nor will lift his eyes to the idols of the children of Israel, nor defile the wife of his neighbor 16Neither will he cheat a man, nor take away the security of a man, nor do harm, and he will give bread to the hungry and he will clothe the naked 17And from the poor he will not return his hand, neither will he take interest, nor has taken excess, and he will do my judgments and he will walk in my commands, he shall not die in the evil of his father, but he shall surely live 18But his father, because he oppressed with oppression and was fraudulent with fraud to his brother, and he did nothing that is beautiful for his people, he dies in his sins

19And if they say: “How is it a son is not paid the sin of his father?”, say to them, “Because the son did justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my commands, he shall surely live 20The soul of the sinner, that shall die. A son shall not be paid for the sins of his father, neither shall the father be paid for the sins of his son. The innocence of the innocent shall be upon him, and the sin of a sinner will be upon him

21But if the evil one shall return from all his sins that he has done, and he will keep my commands, and he will do judgment and righteousness, he shall surely live and he shall not die 22And all his sins that he did will not be remembered against him, but in the righteousness that he did, he shall live 23I do not desire the death of a sinner, says THE LORD OF LORDS, but that he would return from his evil way, and he will live

24And if the righteous will turn from his righteousness and he will do evil and abomination as these that the sinner did, all his righteousness that he did shall not be remembered for him, but in the evil that he did and in the sin that he sinned, in them he shall die 25And you said, “The ways of LORD JEHOVAH are not beautiful.” Hear therefore, you of the house of Israel: my ways are beautiful, but your ways are not beautiful 26And if the righteous will turn from his righteousness, and he will do evil, in the evil that he did he shall die 27And if the evil will return from his evil and he will do justice and righteousness, his soul shall live 28And if he will see and he will return from all his sins that he did, he shall surely live, and he shall not die 29And they of the house of Israel were saying: ‘The ways of LORD JEHOVAH are not beautiful.’ My ways are beautiful, house of Israel, but your ways are not beautiful

30Because of this, I shall judge a man according to his ways, house of Israel, says THE LORD OF LORDS. Return and be converted from all your evil, and you will not have your sins as a stumbling block 31And cast away from you all the evil that you have done, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, and you shall not die, those of the house of Israel 32Because I do not have pleasure in the death of a dead person, says THE LORD OF LORDS, but return and live