In those days I also saw Yehuḏ
And Sovereign Shelomoh loved many foreign women in addition to the daughter of Pharaoh: Mo’aḇ
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You, you have trespassed and have taken foreign women, adding to the guilt of Yisra’ĕ
All these had taken foreign women, and some of them had women who had borne children.
and that we would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons,
and that if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a set-apart day, and we would forego the seventh year and the interest of every hand.
On that day was read from the Book of Mosheh in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written that an Ammonite and Mo’aḇ
And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdoḏ
“Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, trespassing against our Elohim by marrying foreign wives?”
And it came to be, when Sanballat and Toḇ
“Guard what I command you today. See, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Kenaʽ
Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
“When יהוה your Elohim brings you into the land which you go to possess, He shall also clear away many nations before you: the Ḥ
And they took wives of the women of Mo’aḇ
And the Philistines took the ark of Elohim and brought it from Eḇ
