^3 (A)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

² from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, ^(A)“You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

¹² Or else, if indeed you do ^(A)go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and ^(B)make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, ¹³ know for certain that ^(C)the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. ^(D)But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(B)invites you and you ^(C)eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of ^(D)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^(E)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

^14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For ^(B)what ^[a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what ^[b]communion has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ^(C)you^[c] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

¹⁷ Therefore