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Intermarriage Forbidden

Nehemiah 13:23

In 11 translations

BSB
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
KJV
¶ In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:had…: Heb. had made to dwell with them
WEB
In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
ASV
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
LSV
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
YLT
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
DBY
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
DRC
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
GNV
In those dayes also I saw Iewes that married wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
JPS
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
LXXE
And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (4)
  • Leningrad Codex reads אַשְׁדֳּודִיּ֔וֹת; read aloud (Qere) reads אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת (“Ashdodite”).
  • Written (Ketiv): אַשְׁדּוֹדִיּוֹת. Read aloud (Qere): אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת (“Ashdodite”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
  • Leningrad Codex reads עַמֳּונִיּ֖וֹת; read aloud (Qere) reads עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹת (“Ammonite”).
  • Written (Ketiv): עַמּוֹנִיּוֹת. Read aloud (Qere): עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹת (“Ammonite”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
גַּ֣ם ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם רָאִ֤יתִי אֶת־הַיְּהוּדִים֙ הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ נָשִׁים֙ אשדודיות עמוניות מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃Read aloud as (qere): אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹתYathir readings in L which we have designated as Qeres when both Dothan and BHS list a Qere.Read aloud as (qere): עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹתYathir readings in L which we have designated as Qeres when both Dothan and BHS list a Qere.
LXX-Br23:23
Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις εἶδον τοὺς Ἰουδαίους οἳ ἐκάθισαν γυναῖκας Ἀζωτίας, Ἀμμανίτιδας, Μωαβίτιδας·

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  • Ezra 9:1–2After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations…
  • Ezra 10:10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
  • Nehemiah 10:30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
  • 2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
  • Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
  • Ezra 10:44All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
  • Nehemiah 4:7When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
  • Ezra 9:11–12that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to…
  • 1 Samuel 5:1After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

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