Ezra 9:12
"Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever."
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- Deuteronomy 7:3
"Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 23:6
"Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever."
Read in chapter → - Joshua 23:12
"Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:"
Read in chapter → - Exodus 34:15
"Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 13:22
"A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."
Read in chapter → - 2 John 1:10
"If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:7
"The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 18:18
"Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 112:1
"Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments."
Read in chapter → - Ezra 9:2
"For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass."
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