Thematic Bible: Reasons for prohibition
Thematic Bible
Miscegenation » Reasons for prohibition
because they will turn your children from me to serve other gods so that the LORD's anger blazes against you and swiftly destroys you by fire.
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because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another, know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
"You are not to take any of their daughters for your sons. Otherwise, when their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they may cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
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