God’s Word Translation
Nehemiah 10:30
30We will not allow our daughters to marry the inhabitants of the land or allow their daughters to marry 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 took an oath. These people included the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the inhabitants of the land for the sake of God’s Teachings. Their wives, sons, daughters, and everyone who is capable of understanding also took an oath. 29They joined their relatives, the nobles, in binding themselves with a curse and an oath to follow God’s teachings given by Moses, God’s servant. They also bound themselves to follow all the commandments, rules, and regulations of the Lord our Lord. We will not allow our daughters to marry the inhabitants of the land or allow their daughters to marry our sons. 31If the inhabitants of the land bring merchandise or grain to sell on the day of rest—a holy day, we won’t buy anything from them on the day of rest or any other holy day. During the seventh year, we won’t plant the fields or collect any debts. 32Also, we take upon ourselves the obligation to give an eighth of an ounce of silver every year for worship in our God’s temple:
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 your sons will end up marrying their daughters. When their daughters chase after their gods as though they were prostitutes, they’ll lead your sons to do the same thing.
- Deuteronomy 7:3Never marry any of them. Never let your daughters marry their sons or your sons marry their daughters.
- Ezra 9:1After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have failed to keep themselves separate from the neighboring groups of people and from the disgusting practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
- Ezra 10:10Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, and now you have added 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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