Christian Standard Bible
Nehemiah 10:30
30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.
Nehemiah 10:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
- New International Version (NIV)“We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.
- English Standard Version (ESV)We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
- New King James Version (NKJV)We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Context of Nehemiah 10:30
28The rest of the people — the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples to obey the law of God — 29join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the Lord our Lord. We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons. 31When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt. 32We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God:
Read all of Nehemiah 10Nehemiah 10:30 word by word
וַאֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־נִתֵּ֥ן בְּנֹתֵ֖ינוּ לְעַמֵּ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְאֶת־בְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א נִקַּ֖ח לְבָנֵֽינוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Nehemiah 10:30
- Exodus 34:16Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
- Deuteronomy 7:3You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Ezra 9:1After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices are like those of the Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
- Ezra 10:10Then the priest Ezra stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.
Commentaries on Nehemiah 10:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30Not give our daughters - Make no affinity with the people of the land.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30Compare Ezra 9–10.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 29-3929-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that they abstain from contracting matrimonial alliances with the heathen; that they would rigidly observe…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nehemiah 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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