Ezra 9:12

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons: and take not their daughters for your sons. And seek not their peace, nor their prosperity forever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good things of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:3

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

Deuteronomy 23:6

Thou shalt not make peace with them: neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

Proverbs 13:22

The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

Isaiah 1:19

If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

Proverbs 20:7

The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons; and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.

Exodus 23:32

Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani, the seer, met him and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly; and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord: and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:7

Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

1 Chronicles 28:8

Now then before all the assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our God, keep ye, and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God: that you may possess the good land; and may leave it to your children after you for ever.