American Standard Version
"Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women? "
— Nehemiah 13:27, American Standard Version
“Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?”
“Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"”
“Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?””
“And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women:”
“Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?”
“Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?”
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.
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 for your sons, or for yourselves.
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work;