Nehemiah 13:27

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

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25 I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

27 Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

28 Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

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Nehemiah 13:27 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
KJV King James Version: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
WEB World English Bible: Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
ASV American Standard Version: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'
DBY Darby Translation: And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
WBS Webster Bible: Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?