Verses 27-28 repeat the theme of wicked people who repent and thereafter live good lives. See the comments on verses 21-22.

Good News Translation provides an acceptable model for verses 26-28, but it does retain the masculine pronoun “he.” New Century Version provides a helpful model without this pronoun, saying:

• 26 When good people stop doing good and do wrong, they will die because of it. They will die, because they did wrong. 27 When the wicked stop being wicked and do what is fair and right, they will save their lives. 28 Because they thought about it and stopped doing all the sins they had done, they will surely live. They will not die.

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .