Deuteronomy 7:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

³ neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Common English Bible

³ Don’t intermarry with them. Don’t give your daughter to one of their sons to marry, and don’t take one of their daughters to marry your son,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And you shall not associate with them in marriage. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor accept his daughter for your son.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.

Deuteronomy 7:3 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

1 Kings 16:31

And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he took as his wife Jezebel daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

Ezra 10:3

So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the law.

Ezra 9:12

Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Nehemiah 10:30

We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons,

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among your kin or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she pleases me.”