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13 demands and accepts interest. Should he live? He will not live, because he has engaged in all these disgusting practices — he must be put to death; his blood is on him.

14 “But now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father committed, thinks about them, and behaves differently. 15 He doesn’t eat on the mountains, raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Isra’el, defile his neighbor’s wife,

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13 He lends at interest and takes a profit.(A)

Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.(B)

14 “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:(C)

15 “He does not eat at the mountain shrines(D)
    or look to the idols(E) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

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