(A)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

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12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you (A)and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

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(A)For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the (B)holy race[a] has (C)mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:2 Hebrew offspring

25 (A)And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. (B)And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

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39 (A)A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only (B)in the Lord.

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