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;
8. if he does not lend at interest or exact usury; if he refrains from evildoing and makes a fair judgment between two opponents;
9. if he walks by my statutes and is careful to observe my ordinances, that man is just—he shall surely live—oracle of the Lord God.
10. But if he begets a son who is violent and commits murder, or does any of these things,
11. even though the father does none of them—a son who eats on the mountains, defiles the wife of his neighbor,
12. oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not give back a pledge, raises his eyes to idols, does abominable things,