Nehemiah 10:30

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“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

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  • Exod 34:16 : 16 and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
  • Deut 7:3 : 3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
  • Ezra 9:1-3 : 1 A Prayer of Ezra Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said,“The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this unfaithfulness!” 3 When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and my robe and ripped out some of the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat down, quite devastated.
  • Ezra 9:12-14 : 12 Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’ 13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this. 14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?
  • Ezra 10:10-12 : 10 Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them,“You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel. 11 Now give praise to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives.” 12 All the assembly replied in a loud voice:“We will do just as you have said!

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  • Ezra 9:12
    81%

    12Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’

  • Neh 10:31
    80%

    31We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.

  • Deut 7:3
    77%

    3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Gen 34:14-17
    4 verses
    77%

    14They said to them,“We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

    15We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

    16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

    17But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

  • Neh 10:28-29
    2 verses
    76%

    28“Now the rest of the people– the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand–

    29hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

  • Neh 13:25
    76%

    25So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying,“You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

  • Judg 21:7
    75%

    7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

  • Neh 13:27
    75%

    27Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”

  • Ezra 10:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra:“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

    3Therefore let us enact a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord, and that of those who respect the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law.

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1A Prayer of Ezra Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said,“The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

    2Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this unfaithfulness!”

  • Judg 21:18
    74%

    18But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying,‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

  • Exod 34:16
    74%

    16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

  • Gen 34:9
    73%

    9Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

  • Ezra 10:14
    73%

    14Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

  • Judg 3:6
    73%

    6They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

  • Gen 34:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

    22Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

  • Judg 21:1
    72%

    1600 Brides for 600 Brothers The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying,“Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

  • Neh 5:5
    71%

    5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

  • Ezra 9:14
    71%

    14Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?

  • Ezra 10:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them,“You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

    11Now give praise to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives.”

  • Josh 23:12
    71%

    12But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

  • Lev 19:29
    71%

    29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

  • Josh 22:29
    70%

    29Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”

  • Judg 21:22
    70%

    22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

  • Neh 5:2
    70%

    2There were those who said,“With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

  • Neh 10:37
    70%

    37We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.

  • Jer 35:9
    70%

    9We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19but all the leaders told the whole community,“We swore an oath to them in the name of the LORD God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them!

    20We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”

  • Gen 24:37
    70%

    37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

  • Gen 24:3
    70%

    3so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

  • Neh 5:12
    70%

    12They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.

  • Ezra 10:44
    70%

    44All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.