Nehemiah 10:30

Webster's Bible (1833)

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

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  • Exod 34:16 : 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
  • Deut 7:3 : 3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.
  • Ezra 9:1-3 : 1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples 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 mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass. 3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
  • Ezra 9:12-14 : 12 now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. 13 After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
  • Ezra 10:10-12 : 10 Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women. 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

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  • Ezra 9:12
    81%

    12now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.

  • Neh 10:31
    80%

    31and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

  • Deut 7:3
    77%

    3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.

  • Gen 34:14-17
    4 verses
    77%

    14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

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

    17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister,{Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"} and we will be gone."

  • Neh 10:28-29
    2 verses
    76%

    28The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and understanding;

    29They joined with their brothers, 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

  • Neh 13:25
    76%

    25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

  • Judg 21:7
    75%

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

  • Neh 13:27
    75%

    27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

  • Ezra 10:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for 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 who 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 drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples 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 mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

  • Judg 21:18
    74%

    18However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

  • Exod 34:16
    74%

    16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • Gen 34:9
    73%

    9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Ezra 10:14
    73%

    14Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched.

  • Judg 3:6
    73%

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

  • Gen 34:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become 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 Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.

  • Neh 5:5
    71%

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Ezra 9:14
    71%

    14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

  • Ezra 10:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

    11Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.

  • Josh 23:12
    71%

    12Else if you do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

  • Lev 19:29
    71%

    29Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Josh 22:29
    70%

    29Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent.

  • Judg 21:22
    70%

    22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.

  • Neh 5:2
    70%

    2For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

  • Neh 10:37
    70%

    37and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take 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 to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.

  • Gen 24:37
    70%

    37My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

  • Gen 24:3
    70%

    3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

  • Neh 5:12
    70%

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

  • Ezra 10:44
    70%

    44All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.