Parallel Verses
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And at the same time saw I Jews, that married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and of 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
I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the gates and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.
23 In those days I also saw that the Jews had
Phrases
Cross References
Nehemiah 10:30
That way we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;
Ezra 9:1-2
After these things were done, the captains came to me and said: The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands. They have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 10:10
Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them: You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, thus increasing the sin of Israel.
Nehemiah 13:1
On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses while the people listened. They heard that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God at any time.
1 Samuel 5:1
The Philistines captured the Ark of God and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
Ezra 9:11-12
Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying: 'The land where you are going, you should take for a heritage. It is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.'
Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.
Nehemiah 4:7
When the Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, heard that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were very angry.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?