Nehemiah 10:28-30

International Standard Version

Commitments of the Covenant

²⁸ The rest of the people, the priests, the descendants of Levi, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Temple Servants, and everyone who had separated themselves from the peoples of the surrounding^[a] lands for the Law of God—their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who had knowledge and understanding— ²⁹ joined with their relatives and their leaders. They entered into an oath—enforced by a curse^[b]—to walk in God’s Law that was given through God’s servant Moses, and to be careful to obey all of the commands of the Lord, our Lord, as well as his regulations and statutes: ³⁰ “We will not give our daughters in marriage^[c] to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.