Ezra 9:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6

Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

Exodus 34:16

Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son: lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Ezra 10:2

And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land. And now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this,

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy.

Malachi 2:15

Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Malachi 2:11

Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God.

Deuteronomy 14:2

Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

Exodus 22:31

You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs.

Exodus 19:6

And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. Those are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.

Isaiah 6:13

And there shall be still a tithing therein: and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine-tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches. That which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanaballat the Horonite: and I drove him from me.

Nehemiah 13:17

And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day?

Joshua 23:12

But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

Ezra 9:12

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.

Ezra 9:14

That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?

Leviticus 21:15

He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

Joshua 22:15

Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, and said to them:

1 Kings 11:1

And king Solomon loved many strange women besides the daughter of Pharao. And women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites: