English Standard Version
Nehemiah 10:30
30We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters 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.
- 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;
- New Living Translation (NLT)“We promise not to let our daughters marry the pagan people of the land, and not to let our sons marry their daughters.
Context of Nehemiah 10:30
28"The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, 29join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his rules and his statutes. We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 31And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt. 32"We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Nehemiah 10:30
- Exodus 34:16and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
- Deuteronomy 7:3You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
- Ezra 9:1After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
- Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
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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