Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And at the same time saw I Jews, that married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and of Moab;
New American Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had
King James Version
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Holman Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
International Standard Version
At that time I also noticed that Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
A Conservative Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
American Standard Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Amplified
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Bible in Basic English
And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
Darby Translation
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
Julia Smith Translation
Also in those days I saw Jews who caused to dwell women, Ashdodites, Ammonites, Moabites:
King James 2000
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Modern King James verseion
In those days I also saw Jews who lived with women from Ashdod, Ammon, and from Moab.
NET Bible
Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Heart English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
The Emphasized Bible
Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
Webster
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
World English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Youngs Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Persons in authority should denounce
Ammonites » Jews intermarry with
the Ammonites » The jews reprobated for intermarrying with
Divorce » Forced on those who had idolatrous wives
Marriage » The reward for marrying idolaters
Marriage » The jews » Often contracted with foreigners
Moabites » Are a snare to the israelites
Moabites » israelites » Sometimes intermarried with
Nehemiah » Earnestness in reform
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 13:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mixed Marriages Are Condemned
22 And I said unto the Levites which were clean, that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the Sabbath day. Think upon me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to thy great mercy! 23 And at the same time saw I Jews, that married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and of Moab; 24 and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of the one people and the other people.
Phrases
Cross References
Nehemiah 10:30
and that we would not give our daughters unto the people in the land, neither to take their daughters for our sons.
Ezra 9:1-2
Then all this was performed, the rulers came to me, and said, "The people of Israel, and the priests, and Levites are not separated from the nations in the lands as touching their abominations, namely of the Cananites, Hittites, Perezites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Ezra 10:10
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, "Ye have transgressed, that have taken strange wives, to make the trespass of Israel yet more:
Nehemiah 13:1
And what time as the book of Moses was read in the ears of the people there was found written therein, that the Ammonites and Moabites should never come into the congregation of God,
1 Samuel 5:1
And the Philistines took the ark of God and carried it from the help stone, unto Ashdod,
Ezra 9:11-12
which thou hast commanded by thy servants the Prophets, and said, 'The land unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the filthiness of the people of the lands, in their abominations wherewith they have made it full of uncleanness on every side.
Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange wives; and among the same wives there were some that had born children.
Nehemiah 4:7
But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that they had begun to stop up the gaps, they were very wroth;
2 Corinthians 6:14
Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?