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Nehemiah 13:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab.

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King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites—

Then Ezra, the priest, stood up and said to them: “Your apostasy in taking foreign women as wives has added to Israel’s guilt.

All these had taken foreign wives; but they sent them away, both the women and their children.

join their influential kindred, and with the sanction of a curse take this oath to follow the law of God given through Moses, the servant of God, and to observe carefully all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord, his ordinances and his statutes.

We will not marry our daughters to the local inhabitants, and we will not accept their daughters for our sons.

At that time, when the book of Moses was being read in the hearing of the people, it was found written there: “No Ammonite or Moabite may ever be admitted into the assembly of God;

Of their children, half spoke the language of Ashdod, or of one of the other peoples, and none of them knew how to speak the language of Judah.

Must it also be heard of you that you have done this same terrible evil, betraying our God by marrying foreign women?”

I stationed guards down below, behind the wall, near the exposed points, assigning them by family groups with their swords, spears, and bows.

As for you, observe what I am commanding you today. See, I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and removes many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—

They married Moabite women, one named Orpah, the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years,

The Philistines, having captured the ark of God, transferred it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.




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