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Exodus 34:16
And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same. (niv)
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Nehemiah 13:23-24
Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. (niv)
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Exodus 19:6
you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.” (niv)
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Deuteronomy 7:1-4
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations— the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. (niv)
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Exodus 22:31
“ You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 14:2
for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 6 14
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? (niv)
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Ezra 10:18-44
Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: From the descendants of Joshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.( They all gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they each presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.)From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel and Uzziah.From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad and Elasah.Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah( that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer.From the musicians: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem and Uri.And among the other Israelites: From the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah and Benaiah.From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth and Elijah.From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad and Aziza.From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai and Athlai.From the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluk, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal and Jeremoth.From the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh.From the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Ishijah, Malkijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,Benjamin, Malluk and Shemariah.From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh and Shimei.From the descendants of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,Benaiah, Bedeiah, Keluhi,Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,Mattaniah, Mattenai and Jaasu.From the descendants of Binnui: Shimei,Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,Maknadebai, Shashai, Sharai,Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,Shallum, Amariah and Joseph.From the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel and Benaiah.All these had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. (niv)
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Malachi 2:11
Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god. (niv)
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Ezra 10:2
Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra,“ We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel. (niv)
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Malachi 2:15
Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. (niv)
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Nehemiah 13:3-4
When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah, (niv)
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Isaiah 6:13
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.” (niv)
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1 Corinthians 7 14
For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. (niv)
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Nehemiah 13:17
I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them,“ What is this wicked thing you are doing— desecrating the Sabbath day? (niv)
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Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. (niv)
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Nehemiah 13:28
One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me. (niv)