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Standards of Unrighteous Behavior

10 “Now suppose that person produces a son who’s violent, a murderer, and practices any of these things, 11 even though the father[a] hasn’t done any of these things. The son who eats at mountain shrines, defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 oppresses the afflicted and the poor, robs others, doesn’t return security for a debt, looks to idols, does detestable things,

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  1. Ezekiel 18:11 Lit. though he

10 “Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood(A) or does any of these other things[a] 11 (though the father has done none of them):

“He eats at the mountain shrines.(B)
He defiles his neighbor’s wife.
12 He oppresses the poor(C) and needy.
He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.(D)
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.(E)

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  1. Ezekiel 18:10 Or things to a brother