1The word of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me again, saying,

2What mean you^2f, that you^2f use this proverb concerning the land of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

3[As] I live, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER), you^2f shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 4Behold, all souls are my; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is my: the soul that sins, it shall die.

5But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 6[And] has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], neither has defiled his neighbour's wife, neither has come near to a monstrous woman, 7And has not oppressed any, [but] has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 8He [that] has not given forth upon usury (interest paid for using money), neither has taken any increase, [that] has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man, 9Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, to deal truly; he [is] just, he shall surely live, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER).

10If he beget (to be father of; be ancestor of) a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] does the like to [any] one of these [things], 11And that does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, 12Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, 13Has given forth upon usury (interest paid for using money), and has taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

14Now, lo, [if] he beget (to be father of; be ancestor of) a son, that sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers, and does not such like, 15[That] has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], has not defiled his neighbour's wife, 16Neither has oppressed any, has not withheld the pledge, neither has spoiled by violence, [but] has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment, 17[That] has taken off his hand from the poor, [that] has not received usury (interest paid for using money) nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 18[As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

19Yet say you^2f, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, [and] has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. 20The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

21But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live. 23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER): [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?

24But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, [and] does according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die. 25Yet you^2f say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? 26When a righteous [man] turns away from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he die. 27Again, when the wicked [man] turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29Yet says the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], everyone according to his ways, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER). Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you^2f have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you^2f die, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? 32For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER): wherefore turn [yourselves], and live you^2f.