Punishment: Entailed: Upon Children

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  1. …maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
  2. “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
  3. Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
  4. “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
  5. As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.