Nehemiah 13:27
World English Bible (WEB)
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
In context
25 I contended with them, cursed them, struck certain of them, plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
28 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, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
Nehemiah 13:27 in every translation
- 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?”
- 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?
- 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?