14 Bible Verses About Generational Curses

The Bible says both that God visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children of those who hate him, and that a son does not bear his father’s guilt. The first is stated in Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9; the second in Ezekiel 18:20. Deuteronomy 24:16 forbids Israel’s courts to put children to death for their fathers, and Jeremiah 31:29-30 looks to a time when “everyone shall die for his own iniquity.” Other passages record…