MANNAFEST

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

KJV

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ASV

and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

WEB

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

YLT

and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;

DBT

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

About this book

Old Testament

NehemiahThe walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Author
Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date
Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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