Nehemiah 10:30 - Forerunner Commentary

Nehemiah 10:30

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28 ^aNow the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, ^band 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—

29 these joined with their brethren, their nobles, ^aand entered into a curse and an oath ^bto 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:

30 We would not give ^aour daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

31 ^aif the peoples of the land brought¹ 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 ^bseventh year’s produce and the ^cexacting of every debt.

32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly ^aone-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

33 for ^athe showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the ^bregular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

Verse Comparison: Nehemiah 10:30

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American Standard Version
and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

Amplified® Bible
We shall not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

Contemporary English Version
We won't let our sons and daughters marry foreigners.

Darby English Version
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

Good News Bible
We will not intermarry with the foreigners living in our land.

King James Version
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:

New American Standard Bible
and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

New International Version
"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
We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

Revised Standard Version
We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons;

Young's Literal Translation
and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;

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