Nehemiah 13:27

Easy To Read Version

And now, we hear that you also are doing this terrible sin. You are not being true to God. You are marrying foreign women.”

Cross References

Ezra 10:2

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, spoke to Ezra. Shecaniah said, “We have not been faithful to our God. We have married the people living around us. But, even though we have done this, there is still hope for Israel.

Ezra 9:14

So we know that we must not break your commands. We must not marry those people. Those people do very bad things. God, if we continue to marry those bad people, we know you will destroy us! Then there would be no person from the people of Israel left alive.

Nehemiah 10:31

“We promise not to work on the Sabbath day. If the people living around us bring grain or other things to sell on the Sabbath, we won’t buy those things on that special day or on any other holiday. Every seventh year, {\cf2\super [60]} we won’t plant or work the land. And every seventh year, we will cancel every debt that other people owe to us.\par

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days I also noticed that some Jewish men had married women from the countries of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

1 Samuel 30:24

No one will listen to what you say! The share will be the same for the man who stayed with the supplies and for the man who went into battle. Everyone will share alike.”