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Nehemiah 13:27

King James Version (KJV)

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

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25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him 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

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?”
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?”
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?