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Nehemiah 13:25

World English Bible

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

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Nehemiah 13:25 in other translations

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

Nehemiah 13:25 · American Standard Version

Nehemiah 13:25 in context

  1. 23In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
  2. 24and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
  3. 25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
  4. 26Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
  5. 27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”