Lamentations 5:7
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7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
(A)and we bear their iniquities.
Jeremiah 16:12
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12 and because (A)you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, (B)every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.
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Ezekiel 18:2
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2 “What do you[a] mean (A)by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, (B)‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?
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- Ezekiel 18:2 The Hebrew for you is plural
Jeremiah 31:29
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29 In those days they shall no longer say:
(A)“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge.’
Exodus 20:5
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5 (A)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am (B)a jealous God, (C)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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Jeremiah 14:20
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20 (A)We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord,
and the iniquity of our fathers,
(B)for we have sinned against you.
Matthew 23:32-36
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32 (A)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, (B)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (C)hell? 34 (D)Therefore (E)I send you (F)prophets and wise men and (G)scribes, (H)some of whom you will kill and crucify, and (I)some you will (J)flog in your synagogues and (K)persecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all (L)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous (M)Abel to the blood of (N)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[a] whom you murdered between (O)the sanctuary and (P)the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, (Q)all these things will come upon this generation.
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- Matthew 23:35 Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah
Zechariah 1:5
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5 Your fathers, where are they? And (A)the prophets, do they live forever?
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Jeremiah 31:15
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15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
(D)because they are no more.”
Job 7:21
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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in (A)the earth;
you will (B)seek me, (C)but I shall not be.”
Job 7:8
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8 (A)The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
while your eyes are on me, (B)I shall be gone.
Genesis 42:36
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36 And Jacob their father said to them, “You have (A)bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”
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Genesis 42:13
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13 And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one (A)is no more.”
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