Nehemiah 13:23

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“In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.”

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BSBPD

“In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, andof Moab:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews <FI>who<Fi> have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Nehemiah 13:23 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ruth 1:4who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
  2. 1 Samuel 5:1After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
  3. Ezra 9:1After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
  4. Ezra 9:11that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
  5. Ezra 10:10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
  6. Ezra 10:44All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
  7. Nehemiah 4:7When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
  8. Nehemiah 10:30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
  9. Nehemiah 10:31When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.
  10. Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
  11. 2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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