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Nehemiah 10:30
30“We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us 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:
- 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;
- 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—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, musicians, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the sake of the Law of God, together with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand— 29all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the Lord our Lord. “We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons. 31“When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts. 32“We assume the responsibility for carrying out the commands to give a third of a shekel each year 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 when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
- Deuteronomy 7:3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Ezra 9:1After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites.
- Ezra 10:10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful; you have married 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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