Nehemiah 10:30

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

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  • Exod 34:16 : 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
  • Deut 7:3 : 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
  • Ezra 9:1-3 : 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. 3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
  • Ezra 9:12-14 : 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; 14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
  • Ezra 10:10-12 : 10 And a the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. 11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. 12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

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  • Ezra 9:12
    81%

    12Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

  • Neh 10:31
    80%

    31And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

  • Deut 7:3
    77%

    3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Gen 34:14-17
    4 verses
    77%

    14And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

    15But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

    16Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

    17But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

  • Neh 10:28-29
    2 verses
    76%

    28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the thinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every o having knowledge, and having understanding;

    29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

  • Neh 13:25
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    25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

  • Judg 21:7
    75%

    7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

  • Neh 13:27
    75%

    27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

  • Ezra 10:2-3
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    75%

    2And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto a, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

    3Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

    2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

  • Judg 21:18
    74%

    18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

  • Exod 34:16
    74%

    16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

  • Gen 34:9
    73%

    9And make ye marrias with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

  • Ezra 10:14
    73%

    14Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

  • Judg 3:6
    73%

    6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

  • Gen 34:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is lar enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

  • Judg 21:1
    72%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Neh 5:5
    71%

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: ither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and viyards.

  • Ezra 9:14
    71%

    14Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

  • Ezra 10:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10And a the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

    11Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

  • Josh 23:12
    71%

    12Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

  • Lev 19:29
    71%

    29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; st the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Josh 22:29
    70%

    29God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.

  • Judg 21:22
    70%

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

  • Neh 5:2
    70%

    2For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

  • Neh 10:37
    70%

    37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manr of trees, of wi and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • Jer 35:9
    70%

    9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

  • Gen 24:37
    70%

    37And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

  • Gen 24:3
    70%

    3And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

  • Neh 5:12
    70%

    12Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

  • Ezra 10:44
    70%

    44All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.