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Individual Responsibility. 16 Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crime shall a person be put to death.(A)

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what is the meaning of this proverb you recite in the land of Israel:

“Parents eat sour grapes,(A)
    but the children’s teeth are set on edge”?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:2 Parents…on edge: a proverb the people quoted to complain that they were being punished for their ancestors’ sins; cf. Jer 31:29.