Deuteronomy 24:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶Parents 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)

¹⁷Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless^(B) of justice,^(C) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. ¹⁸Remember that you were slaves in Egypt^(D) and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

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Deuteronomy 24:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶^(A)“Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷^(B)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, ^(C)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge. ¹⁸But ^(D)you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.

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Deuteronomy 24:16-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶“^(A)Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone.

¹⁷“^(B)You shall not pervert the justice ^[a]due a stranger or ^[b]an orphan, nor ^(C)seize a widow’s garment as a ^[c]pledge. ¹⁸But you are to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.