Nehemiah 13:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying strange women?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying strange (heathen) women?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

Common English Bible

²⁷ Should we then listen to you and do all this great evil, acting unfaithfully toward our God by marrying foreign women?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil: to transgress against our God, and marry strange women?

Nehemiah 13:27 Cross References

Ezra 10:2

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married strange women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Ezra 9:14

shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

Nehemiah 10:31

and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day: and that we would forgo the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

1 Samuel 30:24

And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as his share is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his share be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall share alike.