Ezra 9:1
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Denunciation of Mixed Marriages
9 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.(A)
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Nehemiah 13:23
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Mixed Marriages Condemned
23 In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab,(A)
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Jeremiah 3:7-9
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7 And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.(A) 8 She[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.(B) 9 Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.(C)
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- 3.8 Gk mss Syr: Heb I
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