Nehemiah 10:30

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 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

28Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding— 29these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes: We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; 31if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year’s produce and the exacting of every debt. 32Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Nehemiah 10:30 word by word

וַאֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־נִתֵּ֥ן בְּנֹתֵ֖ינוּ לְעַמֵּ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְאֶת־בְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א נִקַּ֖ח לְבָנֵֽינוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And that we would not giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• our daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• unto the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• of the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• nor takeלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• for our sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121

Cross-references for Nehemiah 10:30

• Exodus 34:16and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
• Deuteronomy 7:3Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.
• Ezra 9:1When these things were done, the leaders came to me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, with respect to the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
• Ezra 10:10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have transgressed and have taken pagan wives, adding to 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

Topics related to Nehemiah 10:30

• Covenant
• Decision
• Fellowship
• Marriage

In the dictionaries

• Curse
• Genealogy
• Israel, History of
• Leviticus
• People
• Synagogue, the Great

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