Deuteronomy 24:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ “Parents must not be put to death for something their children did. And children must not be put to death for something their parents did. A person should be put to death only for a bad thing that he himself did.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 25:4

But Amaziah didn’t kill those officials’ children. Why? He obeyed the law written in the book of Moses. The Lord commanded, “Parents must not be put to death for something their children did. And children must not be put to death for something their parents did. A person should be put to death only for a bad thing that he himself did.” {\cf2\super [284]}

Ezekiel 18:20

The person that sins is the person that will be put to death! A son won’t be punished for his father’s sins. And a father won’t be punished for his son’s sins. A good man’s goodness belongs to him alone. And a bad man’s evil belongs to him alone.

Ezekiel 18:4

I will treat each person just the same. It won’t matter if that person is the parent or the child. The person that sins is the person that will die!

Daniel 6:24

Then the king gave a command to bring the men that had accused Daniel to the lions’ den (cage). Those men and their wives and children were thrown into the lion’s den. The lions grabbed them before they hit the floor of the lions’ den. The lions ate their bodies and then chewed on their bones.

Numbers 26:11

But the other people who were from the family of Korah did not die.

1 Samuel 22:16

But the king said, “Ahimelech, you and all your relatives must die!”