Nehemiah 10:30 Cross References - Thomson

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

¹⁶ and shouldst thou take their daughters for thy sons and give some of thy daughters to their sons, thy daughters may go a whoring after their gods and thy sons may go a whoring after their gods.

³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.

¹ When these things were done, the chiefs came to me and said, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the. neighbouring tribes. In their abominations, the Ethites, the Pherezites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the Moserites, and the Amorites, are the same with the Chananites. ² For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves, and their sons; and the holy seed is mingled with the tribes of the neighbouring regions. And the hand of the chiefs is principally concerned in this transgression. ³ And when I heard this I rent my garments, and started up and tore the hair of my head and my beard. Then I sat down mourning.

¹² now therefore, give not your daughters to their sons, nor take any of their daughters for your sons; nor shall you seek their peace or their welfare forever, that you may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. ¹³ Now after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for this our great transgression; though there is no God like our God; though thou hast blotted out our iniquities and given us deliverance; ¹⁴ yet we have returned to break thy commandments, and to intermarry with the people of these regions. Be not provoked against us to our utter destruction, so that not a remnant may escape.

¹⁰ And Esdras the priest arose, and said to them, You have broken covenant and taken strange wives to add to the transgression of Israel; ¹¹ now therefore, give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do what is well-pleasing in his sight, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives. ¹² In reply to which, all the congregation said, We take upon us the performance of this great thing which thou hast spoken;