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“As I live,” says Adonai Elohim, “I swear that you will never again quote this proverb in Isra’el. Look, all lives belong to me — both the parent’s life and the child’s life are equally mine — so it is the person who sins, himself, who must die.

“Consider someone who is righteous, who does what is lawful and right.

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