Deuteronomy 7:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
  • Exod 34:15-16 : 15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts, 16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you: 13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
  • Judg 3:6-7 : 6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods. 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
  • Gen 6:2-3 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
  • Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women. 27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
  • 2 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark? 15 And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not? 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 7:4
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    4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Jer 16:2
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    2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • Neh 10:30
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    30 And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;

  • Judg 3:6
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    6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

  • Exod 23:32
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    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Lev 19:29
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    29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • Deut 12:31
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    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Lev 21:7
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    7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Neh 13:25
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    25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

  • Lev 18:15
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    15 Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Gen 34:9
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    9 And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Lev 22:12
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    12 And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.

  • Lev 18:17-18
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    17 You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18 And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

  • Deut 7:16
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    16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    72%

    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 24:4
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    4 Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

  • Exod 21:9
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    9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

  • Deut 17:17
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    17 And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

  • Deut 22:30
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    30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Lev 21:14
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    14 A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.

  • Deut 23:17
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    17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

  • Num 30:16
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    16 But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

  • Deut 12:4
    72%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 5:17
    72%

    17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

  • Gen 24:3
    72%

    3 And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

  • Lev 18:10
    71%

    10 You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

  • Num 36:8
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    8 And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.

  • Num 36:6
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    6 This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.

  • Deut 13:8
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    8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

  • Josh 23:7
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    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Deut 23:6
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    6 Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Jer 29:6
    71%

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Num 27:9
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    9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:2
    71%

    2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22 And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.