'Father' in the Bible

and say, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Indeed! All lives are mine -- the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one who sins will die.

(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor's wife,

"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.

As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer for his father's iniquity, and a father will not suffer for his son's iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

"'They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.