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25 So I reprimanded those Jews, cursed them, beat some of them, and pulled out their hair. I made them swear by God: |We won't allow our daughters to marry their sons, and we won't allow their daughters to marry us or our sons.| 26 I said, |Wasn't it because of marriages like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? There wasn't a king like him among all nations. God loved him, and God made him king of all Israel. But his non-Israelite wives led him to sin. 27 Should we follow your example, commit such a serious crime against our God, and be unfaithful to him by marrying non-Israelite women?| Nehemiah 13:25-27, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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