Deuteronomy 24:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers -- each for his own sin, they are put to death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 18:20 : 20 The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.
  • 2 Chr 25:4 : 4 and their sons he hath not put to death, but `did' as is written in the law, in the book of Moses, whom Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers do not die for sons, and sons die not for fathers, but each for his own sin they die.'
  • Jer 31:29-30 : 29 In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted. 30 But -- each for his own iniquity doth die, Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, Blunted are his teeth.
  • 2 Kgs 14:5-6 : 5 And it cometh to pass, when the kingdom hath been strong in his hand, that he smiteth his servants, those smiting the king his father, 6 and the sons of those smiting `him' he hath not put to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses that Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers, but each for his own sin is put to death.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 25:4
    84%

    4and their sons he hath not put to death, but `did' as is written in the law, in the book of Moses, whom Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers do not die for sons, and sons die not for fathers, but each for his own sin they die.'

  • Ezek 18:17-20
    4 verses
    84%

    17From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.

    18His father -- because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which `is' not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.

    19And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And -- the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.

    20The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

  • 2 Kgs 14:6
    81%

    6and the sons of those smiting `him' he hath not put to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses that Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers, but each for his own sin is put to death.'

  • Ezek 18:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.

    14And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,

  • Jer 31:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

    30But -- each for his own iniquity doth die, Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, Blunted are his teeth.

  • Lev 20:9
    74%

    9`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood `is' on him.

  • Deut 24:17
    73%

    17`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

  • Ezek 18:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Ye have no more the use of this simile in Israel.

    4Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son -- they are Mine, The soul that is sinning -- it doth die.

  • Lev 24:17
    73%

    17`And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

  • Exod 21:15
    73%

    15`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

  • Isa 14:21
    73%

    21Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world `with' cities.

  • Lam 5:7
    73%

    7Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

  • Exod 22:24
    72%

    24and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

  • Lev 20:11
    72%

    11`And a man who lieth with his father's wife -- the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered -- both of them are certainly put to death; their blood `is' on them.

  • Jer 16:3
    72%

    3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

  • Exod 21:17
    72%

    17`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

  • Jer 16:7
    72%

    7Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.

  • Mark 13:12
    71%

    12`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

  • Matt 10:21
    71%

    21`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

  • Deut 24:15
    71%

    15in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he `is' poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

  • Num 35:31
    71%

    31`And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who `is' condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

  • Ezek 18:26
    71%

    26In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.

  • Ezek 5:10
    71%

    10Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

  • Lev 26:39
    71%

    39`And those who are left of you -- they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away.

  • Matt 15:4
    71%

    4for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

  • Jer 13:14
    71%

    14And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.

  • Ps 109:14
    71%

    14The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out.

  • 1 Sam 2:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --

    25If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

  • Jer 11:22
    70%

    22Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: `Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine,

  • Exod 31:14
    70%

    14and ye have kept the sabbath, for it `is' holy to you, he who is polluting it is certainly put to death -- for any who doeth work in it -- that person hath even been cut off from the midst of his people.

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
    70%

    22and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, `Jehovah doth see, and require.'

  • Prov 23:13
    70%

    13Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

  • Prov 13:22
    70%

    22A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth.

  • Lev 24:15
    70%

    15`And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When any man revileth his God -- then he hath borne his sin;

  • Lev 24:21
    70%

    21`And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth `the life of' man is put to death;

  • Ezek 3:20
    70%

    20`And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.

  • Deut 19:21
    70%

    21and thine eye doth not pity -- life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Exod 34:7
    70%

    7keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third `generation', and on a fourth.'

  • Deut 21:22
    69%

    22`And when there is in a man a sin -- a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,