RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

also taken the mighty of the land:
14 That the malchut might be base, that it might not lift
itself up, but that by guarding his brit it might stand.
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his
ambassadors into Mitzrayim, that they might give him
horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he
escape that does such things? Or, shall he break the brit,
and be delivered? 2402
16 As I live, says the Master vuvh, surely in the place
where the melech dwells that made him melech, whose
oath he despised, and whose brit he broke, even with him
in the midst of Bavel he shall die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company go in to help him in battle, by casting heap
mounds, and building walls, to cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the brit, 2403
when, see, he had given his hand, and has done all these
things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore this says the Master vuvh; As I live, surely
My oath that he has despised, and My brit that he has
broken, even it will I repay upon his own head. 2404
20 And I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be
taken in My trap, and I will bring him to Bavel, and will
plead with him there for his trespass that he has
trespassed against Me. 2405
21 And all his fugitives with all his chains shall fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all
the winds: and you shall know that I vuvh have spoken it.
22 This says the Master vuvh; I will also take of the
highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will
crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and
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will plant it upon a high and eminent mountain:
23 In the mountain on the height of Yisrael will I plant it:
and it shall bring out branches, and bear fruit, and be a
tov cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowls of every
wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell. 2408
24 And all the eytzim of the field 2409 shall know that I
vuvh have brought down the high eytz, 2410 have exalted
the low eytz, 2411 have dried up the green eytz, 2412 and
have made the dry eytz to flourish: 2413 I vuvh have
spoken and shall do it.
The word of vuvh came to me again, saying,
2 What do you mean, when you use this mishle
concerning the land of Yisrael, saying, The ahvot have
eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are blunted?
3 As I live, says the Master vuvh, you shall not have an
occasion any more to use this mishle in Yisrael.
4 See, all beings belong to Me; the being of the abba, so
also the being of the son is Mine: the being that sins, it shall
die. 2414
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5 But if a man is tzadik, and does that which is according
to Torah and right,
6 And has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has
lifted up his eyes to the idols of Beit Yisrael, neither has
defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a
woman in nidah,
7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the
debtor his pledge, has plundered no one by violence, and
has given his lechem to the hungry, and has covered the
naked with a garment;
8 He that has not charged interest, neither has taken any
increase, that has turned back his hand from iniquity, and
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has executed true mishpat between man and man,
9 Has had their halacha in My chukim, and has kept My
mishpatim, to deal truly; he is just, and he shall surely
live, says the Master vuvh.
10 If he begets a son that is a robber, a shedder of dahm,
or one that does any of these same kind of things,
11 But he himself did not do any of these things, but has
eaten upon the mountains, or defiled his neighbor's wife,
12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has plundered by
violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his
eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
13 Has lent on interest, and has taken increase: shall he
then live? He shall not live: he has done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his dahm shall be upon
him.
14 Now, see, if he begets a son, that sees all his abba's
sins that he has done, and considers it, and does not do
anything like it,
15 Who has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has
lifted up his eyes to the idols of Beit Yisrael, and has not
defiled his neighbor's wife,
16 Neither has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the
pledge, neither has plundered by violence, but has given
his lechem to the hungry, and has covered the naked with
a garment,
17 That has removed his hand from harming the poor,
and has not received interest nor increase, has executed
My mishpatim, has had his halacha in My chukim; he
shall not die for the iniquity of his abba, he shall surely
live.
18 As for his abba, because he oppressed, plundered his
brother by violence, and did that which is not tov among
his people, see, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity
of the abba? When the son has done that which is
according to Torah and right, and has kept all My
mishpatim, and has done them, he shall surely live.
20 The being that sins, he shall die. The son shall not
bear the iniquity of the abba, neither shall the abba bear
the iniquity of the son: the tzedakah of the tzadik shall be
upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has
committed, and guard all My chukim and do mishpat and
tzedakah, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall
not be remembered against him: in his tzedakah that he
has done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?
Says the Master vuvh: and not that he should return from
his own halachot, and live?
24 But when the tzadik turns away from his tzedakah, and
commits iniquity, and does according to all the
abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All
his tzedakah that he has done shall not be mentioned: in
his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he
has sinned, in them shall he die. 2415
25 Yet you say, The derech of vuvh is not equal. Listen,
Beit Yisrael; Is not My derech equal? 2416 Are not your
derachot unequal?
26 When a tzadik man turns away from his tzedakah, and
commits iniquities, and dies in them; for his iniquities that
he has done shall he die.