Nehemiah 10:30

WEB

³⁰and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

KJV

³⁰And that we would not give^[+] our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

BSB

³⁰We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

FBV

³⁰“We promise not to allow our daughters to marry the people of the land, and not to allow our sons to marry their daughters.

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.

Exodus 34:16

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.

¹Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those 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 offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

³When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

Ezra 10:10-12

¹⁰Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel. ¹¹Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”

¹²Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.

Ezra 9:12-14

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.’

¹³“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, ¹⁴shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?