(A)You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a (B)jealous God, (C)inflicting the [a]punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:5 I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing

29 “In those days they will no longer say,
(A)The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
[a]But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:29 I.e., the children suffer for the fathers’ sins

(A)What do you people mean by using this proverb about the land of Israel, saying,

(B)The fathers eat sour grapes,
[a]But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt’?

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:2 Lit I.e., the children suffer for the fathers’ sins

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