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Empty wooden seats stand around a stone bench in a quiet civic court.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Deuteronomy 24:16

Each Answers for His Own Sin

Return the Cloak and Leave the Harvest · Deuteronomy 24

Story guide: The empty court accompanies the rule that each person answers for his own sin, rather than another family member’s.

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16Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; each man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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