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and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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(though the father has done none of them): “He eats at the mountain shrines. He defiles his neighbor’s wife.
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“But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
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He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor and takes no interest or profit from them. He keeps my laws and follows my decrees. He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live.
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But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.
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“Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.
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In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
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In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.
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In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
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All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign Lord.
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“‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.
