Yehezkiel 18:8

18:8 does not engage in usury or charge interest, ¹  but refrains ²  from wrongdoing, promotes true justice ³  between men,

Yehezkiel 18:13

18:13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. ⁴  He will bear the responsibility for his own death. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ⁶  does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; ⁷  he will surely live.

Yehezkiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ⁸  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ⁹  declares the sovereign Lord. ¹⁰ 

[18:8]  ¹ sn This law was given in Lev 25:36.

[18:8]  ² tn Heb, “turns back his hand.”

[18:8]  ³ tn Heb “justice of truth.”

[18:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.

[18:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”

[18:17]  ⁶ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

[18:17]  ⁷ tn Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

[22:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

[22:12]  ⁹ sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

[22:12]  ¹⁰ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.