1. The word of the Lord came to me: Son of man,
2. what is the meaning of this proverb you recite in the land of Israel:“Parents eat sour grapes,but the children’s teeth are set on edge”?
3. As I live—oracle of the Lord God: I swear that none of you will ever repeat this proverb in Israel.
4. For all life is mine: the life of the parent is like the life of the child, both are mine. Only the one who sins shall die!
5. If a man is just—if he does what is right,
6. if he does not eat on the mountains, or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; if he does not defile a neighbor’s wife, or have relations with a woman during her period;
7. if he oppresses no one, gives back the pledge received for a debt, commits no robbery; gives food to the hungry and clothes the naked;