Thematic Bible: Reasons for prohibition
Thematic Bible
Miscegenation » Reasons for prohibition
For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.
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Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you, know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.
and lest you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
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