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Ezra 9:12

WEB

12Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t 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.’

KJV

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.

BSB

12Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’

FBV

12So do not let your daughters marry their sons, or allow their daughters marry your sons. Never make a peace or friendship treaty with them, so that you may live well and eat the good food the land produces, and give the land as an inheritance to your children forever.’

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 7:3

3You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

Deuteronomy 23:6

6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Joshua 23:12-13

12“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast 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; 13know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

Proverbs 13:22

22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Exodus 34:15-16

15“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; 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.

2 John 1:10-11

10If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him, 11for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

Isaiah 1:19

19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

Proverbs 20:7

7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Psalms 112:1-2

1Praise the LORD!Blessed [+] is the man who fears the LORD,[+] who delights greatly in his commandments. 2His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Deuteronomy 6:1-2

1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess; 2that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.