Nehemiah 10:30
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
Nehemiah 10:30 in other translations
| BSB | We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons. |
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| WEB | and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; |
| ASV | and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; |
| YLT | and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons; |
| DARBY | and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: |
| BBE | And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons; |
| Webster | And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: |
What does Nehemiah 10:30 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 10:29-37
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant. 29-37. 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 10:1-31
Conversion is separating from the course and custom of this world, devoting ourselves to the conduct directed by the word of God. When we bind ourselves to do the commandments of God, it is to do all his commandments, and to look to him as the Lord, and our Lord.
Nehemiah 10:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nehemiah 10:30
- Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
- Exodus 34:16
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
- Ezra 9:1-3
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
- Ezra 10:10-12
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
- Ezra 9:12-14
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
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Context
- Nehemiah 10:29
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 judgments and his statutes;
- Nehemiah 10:30
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
- Nehemiah 10:31
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah 10:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y que no daríamos nuestras hijas á los pueblos de la tierra, ni tomaríamos sus hijas para nuestros hijos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | se joignirent à leurs frères, les principaux d’entre eux, et s’engagèrent par exécration et par serment de marcher selon la loi de Dieu qui avait été donnée par Moïse, serviteur de Dieu, et d’observer et de pratiquer tous les commandements de l’ Éternel, notre Seigneur, et ses ordonnances et ses statuts, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und daß wir unsere Töchter den Völkern des Landes nicht geben, noch ihre Töchter für unsere Söhne nehmen wollten; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et ut non daremus filias nostras populo terræ, et filias eorum non acciperemus filiis nostris. |