Ezra 9:12

A Conservative Version

Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritan

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:3

Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.

Deuteronomy 23:6

Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Isaiah 1:19

If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Proverbs 20:7

A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yea, the hand of the heads and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

Exodus 23:32

Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the wicked, and love those who hate LORD? For this thing wrath is upon thee from before LORD.

Deuteronomy 23:7

Thou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother. Thou shall not abhor an Egyptian, because thou were a sojourner in his land.

1 Chronicles 28:8

Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of LORD, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of LORD your God, that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to you