Catholic Public Domain Version
"So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?” "
— Nehemiah 13:27, Catholic Public Domain 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 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 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 sons spoke partly in the speech of Ashdod, and they did not know how to speak the Jewish language, and they were speaking according to the language of one people or another.
And I put them under oath, and I cursed them. And I struck some of their men, and I shaved off their hair, and I made them swear to God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:
“Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin!
So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?”
Now one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the high priest, was a son-in-law to Sanballat, a Horonite, and I made him flee from me.
O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites!
And so I cleansed them from all foreigners, and I established the orders of the priests and the Levites, each one in his ministry.