Nehemiah 10:30
 Nehemiah 10:30 
New International Version (©2011)
"We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"We promise not to let our daughters marry the pagan people of the land, and not to let our sons marry their daughters.

English Standard Version (©2001)
We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.

NET Bible (©2006)
"We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
We will not allow our daughters to marry the inhabitants of the land or allow their daughters to marry our sons.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

American King James Version
And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:

American Standard Version
and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons.

Darby Bible Translation
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

English Revised Version
and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

Webster's Bible Translation
And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

World English Bible
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

Young's Literal Translation
and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-31 Conversion is separating from the course and custom of this world, devoting ourselves to the conduct directed by the word of God. When we bind ourselves to do the commandments of God, it is to do all his commandments, and to look to him as the Lord, and our Lord.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 30. - That we would not give our daughters, etc. On the recurrence of the mixed marriages so soon after the reformation of Ezra, see the comment on Nehemiah 13:23.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons,.... Intermarry with them as they had done, and were prone to do, and even did after this, Nehemiah 13:23.


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The Vows of the Covenant
28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; 29They joined to their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, 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 judgments and his statutes; 30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:

Exodus 34:16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
Deuteronomy 7:3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Nehemiah 13:23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Nehemiah 13:25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.
Nehemiah 13:30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task.