¹⁶ Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.^(A)

⁶ When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”

But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

⁴ Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses,^(A) where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”^[a](B)