Don’t marry any of their people. Don’t give your daughters to their sons. And don’t take their daughters for your sons.

不可与他们结亲。不可将你的女儿嫁他们的儿子，也不可叫你的儿子娶他们的女儿；

不可与他们结亲；不可将你的女儿嫁给他的儿子，也不可叫你的儿子娶他的女儿。

不可与他们结亲；不可将你的女儿嫁给他的儿子，也不可叫你的儿子娶他的女儿。

不可与他们通婚，不可让你们的儿女与他们的儿女通婚，

不可与他们通婚，不可把你的女儿嫁给他们的儿子，也不可为你的儿子娶他们的女儿。

不可與他們結親。不可將你的女兒嫁他們的兒子，也不可叫你的兒子娶他們的女兒；

不可與他們結親；不可將你的女兒嫁給他的兒子，也不可叫你的兒子娶他的女兒。

不可與他們結親；不可將你的女兒嫁給他的兒子，也不可叫你的兒子娶他的女兒。

不可與他們通婚，不可讓你們的兒女與他們的兒女通婚，

不可與他們通婚，不可把你的女兒嫁給他們的兒子，也不可為你的兒子娶他們的女兒。

不可和他們結親；不可將你的女兒嫁給他們的兒子，也不可使你的兒子娶他們的女兒。

勿相嫁娶、爾女勿嫁其子、爾子勿娶其女、

爾與彼勿相嫁娶、爾女不得適其子、爾子不得娶其女、

爾與彼勿相嫁娶、爾女勿嫁其子、爾子勿娶其女、

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters,

You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

The Lord had warned Israel about women from other nations. He had said,“ You must not marry them. If you do, you can be sure they will turn your hearts toward their gods.” But Solomon continued to love them anyway. He wouldn’t give them up.

“ Be careful not to make a peace treaty with the people living in the land. They commit sin by offering sacrifices to their gods. They will invite you to eat their sacrifices, and you will do it.You will choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. And those daughters will commit sin by worshiping their gods. Then they will lead your sons to do the same thing.

In those days I also saw that some men of Judah had married women from Ashdod. Others had married women from Ammon or Moab.Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod. Or they spoke the language of one of the other nations. They didn’t even know how to speak the language of Judah.So I gave them a warning. I cursed them. I beat up some of them. I pulled their hair out. I had them make a promise in God’s name. I said,“ You must promise not to give your daughters to be married to their sons. You must promise not to let their daughters marry your sons. And you must not marry their daughters either.That’s how Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned. He married women from other nations. There wasn’t a king like him anywhere. His God loved him. In fact, God made him king over the whole nation of Israel. But even he was led into sin by women from other lands.Now I hear that you too are doing all of the same terrible and evil things. You aren’t being faithful to our God. You are marrying women from other lands.”

After all these things had been done, the leaders came to me. They said,“ The people of Israel have committed sins. Even the priests and Levites have sinned. They haven’t kept themselves separate from the nations around them. The Lord hates the practices of those nations. He hates what the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites do. He also hates what the Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites do.The men of Israel have married the daughters of some of those people. They’ve also taken some of those women for their sons to marry. So they’ve mixed our holy nation with the nations around us. We leaders and officials have also married women who don’t worship the Lord. By doing this, we have led the way in breaking our covenant with the Lord.”

“ But suppose you turn away from him. You mix with the people who are left alive in the nations that remain among you. Later, you and they get married to each other. And you do other kinds of things with them.Then you can be sure of what the Lord your God will do. He won’t drive out those nations to make room for you anymore. Instead, they will become traps and snares for you. They will be like whips on your backs. They will be like thorns in your eyes. All that will continue until you are destroyed. It will continue until you are removed from this good land. It’s the land the Lord your God has given you.

Do not be joined to unbelievers. What do right and wrong have in common? Can light and darkness be friends?How can Christ and Satan agree? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?How can the temple of the true God and the statues of other gods agree? We are the temple of the living God. God has said,“ I will live with them. I will walk among them. I will be their God. And they will be my people.”( Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27)So,“ Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch anything that is not pure and‘ clean.’ Then I will receive you.”( Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34, 41)

They married the daughters of those people. They gave their own daughters to the sons of those people. And they served the gods of those people.The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God. They served gods that were named Baal. They also served female gods that were named Asherah.

The sons of God saw that the daughters of human beings were beautiful. So they married any of them they chose.Then the Lord said,“ My Spirit will not struggle with human beings forever. They will have only 120 years to live.”