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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.
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Individual Legal Responsibility
Commentators agree that this verse establishes a foundational principle for human legal systems: individual accountability. Unlike the practices of surrounding nations where a whole family might be punished for one person's crime, this law mandates that earthly judges can only punish the person who actually committed the sin.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A caution addressed to earthly judges. Among other Eastern nations, the family of a criminal was commonly involved in his punishment (). In Israel,…
19th Century
Anglican
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. —A sp…
16th Century
Protestant
Here God also reveals how great His regard is for human life, so that blood is not shed indiscriminately, when He forbids children from being invol…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children By the civil magistrates, for sins committed by them of a cap…
It is not hard to prove that purity, piety, justice, mercy, fair conduct, kindness to the poor and destitute, consideration for them, and generosit…
