3 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.

4 “Behold, all souls are ^aMine;
The soul of the father
As well as the soul of the son is Mine;
^bThe soul who sins shall die. ‡

6 ^aIf he has not eaten¹ on the mountains,
Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor ^bdefiled his neighbor’s wife,
Nor approached ^ca woman during her impurity; ‡

7 If he has not ^aoppressed anyone,
But has restored to the debtor his ^bpledge;
Has robbed no one by violence,
But has ^cgiven his bread to the hungry
And covered the naked with ^dclothing; ‡