Devine Scripture

Ezra 9:12

Ezra chapter 9 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Context

v.11which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:

v.12This passage

v.13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 23:32

    Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Ezra 9:2

    For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

  • Isaiah 1:19

    If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

  • Deuteronomy 6:1

    Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;

  • Psalms 112:1

    Praise ye Jehovah. Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, That delighteth greatly in his commandments.

  • Genesis 18:18

    seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?