Ezra 9:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and now, your daughters ye do not give to their sons, and their daughters ye do not take to your sons, and ye do not seek their peace, and their good -- unto the age, so that ye are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons unto the age.

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  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth.
  • Deut 7:3 : 3 `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,
  • Deut 23:6 : 6 thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.
  • Josh 1:6-9 : 6 be strong and courageous, for thou -- thou dost cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them. 7 `Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every `place' whither thou goest; 8 the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely. 9 `Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee `is' Jehovah thy God in every `place' whither thou goest.'
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 `But -- if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, 13 know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, `To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee `is' wrath from before Jehovah,
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 for they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.'
  • Ps 112:1-2 : 1 Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly. 2 Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.
  • Gen 18:18-19 : 18 and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth? 19 for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
  • Exod 23:32 : 32 thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;
  • Exod 34:15-16 : 15 `Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and `one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice, 16 and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;
  • Deut 6:1-2 : 1 `And this `is' the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, 2 so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.
  • Prov 20:7 : 7 The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
  • Isa 1:19 : 19 If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,
  • 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!' 11 for he who is saying to him, `Hail,' hath fellowship with his evil works.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 10:30
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    30and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;

  • Deut 7:3
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    3`And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,

  • Jer 29:6
    77%

    6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

  • Exod 34:15-16
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    15`Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and `one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

    16and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

  • Ezra 9:1-2
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    1And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, `The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,

    2for they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.'

  • Josh 23:12
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    12`But -- if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,

  • Jer 16:2-3
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    2Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.

    3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

  • Deut 23:6
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    6thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

    29`Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

  • Neh 13:25
    74%

    25And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.

  • Ezra 9:11
    74%

    11that Thou hast commanded by the hands of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land into which ye are going to possess it, `is' a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it -- from mouth unto mouth -- by their uncleanness;

  • Gen 34:9
    73%

    9and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

  • Num 36:8
    73%

    8`And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers,

  • 1 Chr 28:8
    72%

    8`And now, before the eyes of all Israel, the assembly of Jehovah, and in the ears of our God, keep and seek all the commands of Jehovah your God, so that ye possess this good land, and have caused your sons to inherit after you unto the age.

  • Deut 28:32
    72%

    32`Thy sons and thy daughters `are' given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!

  • Judg 3:6
    72%

    6and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;

  • Gen 34:21
    72%

    21`These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade `in' it; and the land, lo, `is' wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

  • Deut 12:25
    71%

    25thou dost not eat it, in order that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, when thou dost that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah.

  • Deut 3:19
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    19Only, your wives, and your infants, and your cattle -- I have known that ye have much cattle -- do dwell in your cities which I have given to you,

  • Deut 18:9
    71%

    9`When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:

  • Gen 34:16
    71%

    16then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

  • Exod 34:12
    71%

    12take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

  • Num 18:11
    70%

    11`And this `is' thine: the heave-offering of their gift, to all the wave-offerings of the sons of Israel, to thee I have given them, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute age-during; every clean one in thy house doth eat it;

  • Num 27:9
    70%

    9and if he have no daughter, then ye have given his inheritance to his brethren;

  • Deut 28:41
    70%

    41`Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;

  • Deut 12:9
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    9for ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest, and unto the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

  • Deut 28:55
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    55against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.

  • Judg 21:18
    70%

    18and we -- we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed `is' he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'

  • Exod 21:9
    70%

    9`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

  • Amos 7:17
    70%

    17therefore thus said Jehovah: Thy wife in the city doth go a-whoring, And thy sons and thy daughters by sword do fall, And thy land by line is apportioned, And thou on an unclean land diest, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.'

  • Deut 29:9
    70%

    9and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.

  • Deut 11:9
    70%

    9and so that ye prolong days on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed -- a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Prov 31:3
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    3Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

  • Josh 22:27
    69%

    27but a witness it `is' between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, and your sons do not say hereafter to our sons, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives `are' in captivity for this.

  • Lev 18:10
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    10`The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs `is' thy nakedness.

  • Jer 35:7
    69%

    7and a house ye do not build, and seed ye do not sow, and a vineyard ye do not plant, nor have ye any; for in tents do ye dwell all your days, that ye may live many days on the face of the ground whither ye are sojourning.

  • Gen 24:3
    69%

    3and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

  • Prov 5:17
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    17Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.

  • Judg 21:7
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    7what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

  • Deut 12:31
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    31`Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.