KJV King James Version
In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
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Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
WEB World English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
ASV American Standard Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
Surrounding context — Nehemiah 13
20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no [more] on the sabbath.
22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and [that] they should come [and] keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, [concerning] this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
23 In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
גַּ֣ם׀H1571 · gamalsoבַּיָּמִ֣יםH3117 · yomdayהָהֵ֗םH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)רָאִ֤יתִיH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַיְּהוּדִים֙H3064 · ye.hu.diJewהֹשִׁ֗יבוּH3427 · ya.shavto dwellנָשִׁים֙H802 · ish.shahwomanאַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹתH796 · ash.do.diAshdodעַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹתH5984 · am.mo.niMeuniteמוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃H4125 · mo.a.viMoabite
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Ezra 9:1-2Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.Nehemiah 10:30And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.2 Corinthians 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?Nehemiah 13:1On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;Ezra 10:44All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had children.Nehemiah 4:7But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,1 Samuel 5:1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.Ezra 9:11-12Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
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