⁴ They married Moabite women,^(A) one named Orpah and the other Ruth.^(B) After they had lived there about ten years,

Solomon’s Wives

11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women^(A) besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites,^(B) Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. ² They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry^(C) with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

³ No Ammonite^(A) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.^(B)

³ Do not intermarry with them.^(A) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,