And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;
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▾
About this book
Old TestamentNehemiah — The 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