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 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

28Malluch, Harim, and Baanah. 29“Now the rest of the people —the kohanim, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands for the sake of the Torah of God, along with their wives, their sons and their daughters who were able to understand— all join their brothers the nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in the Torah of God given through Moses the servant of God, and to keep and do all the mitzvot of Adonai our Lord, along with His ordinances and His statutes. 31“Furthermore, we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons. 32When the peoples of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain on Shabbat, we will not buy from them on Shabbat or on a holy day. Also every seventh year we will forego working the land and the debt of every hand.

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 34:16Do not take their daughters for your sons, for their daughters will prostitute themselves with their own gods, and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
• Deuteronomy 7:3You are not to intermarry with them—you are not to give your daughter to his son, or take his daughter for your son.
• Ezra 9:1Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me to say: “The people of Israel, the kohanim and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands who practice detestable things just like the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.
• Ezra 10:10Then Ezra the kohen stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and taken foreign wives, increasing 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