The Covenant That Was Sealed

^28 (A)Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, ^(B)and 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, ^(C)and entered into a curse and an oath ^(D)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 ordinances and His statutes: ³⁰ We would not give ^(E)our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;