1. The Devar Hashem came unto me again, saying,
2. What mean ye, that ye use this mashal concerning Admat Yisroel, saying, Avot have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the banim are set on edge?
3. As I live, saith Adonoi Hashem, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this mashal in Yisroel.
4. Behold, all nefashot are Mine; as the nefesh of the av, so also the nefesh of the ben is Mine; the nefesh that sinneth, it shall die.
5. But if an ish be tzaddik, and do that which is mishpat and tzedakah,
6. And hath not eaten [sacrifices of gillulim, idols] upon the harim, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the gillulim of Bais Yisroel, neither hath made tameh the isha of his neighbor, neither hath come near to an isha niddah,