“Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.

If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,

Parents 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.

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents 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.”

Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”

Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.

Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.

So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.

Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale?

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—