Bible in Basic English
"Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?"
— Nehemiah 13:27, Bible in Basic English
“Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?”
“Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women? ”
“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 their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.
And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by 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?
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.
Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.
So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;