Deuteronomy 24:16 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; only for his own sin shall anyone be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Parents shouldn’t be executed because of what their children have done; neither should children be executed because of what their parents have done. Each person should be executed for their own guilty acts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death on behalf of the sons, nor the sons on behalf of the fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers: but every one shall die for his own sin.

Deuteronomy 24:16 Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:4

But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “The parents shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the parents; but all shall be put to death for their own sins.”

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent, nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be his own.

Ezekiel 18:4

Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins that shall die.

Daniel 6:24

The king gave a command, and those who had accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

Numbers 26:11

Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah did not die.

1 Samuel 22:16

The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house.”