17 Bible Verses about Intermarriage

You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.

If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them,

Jehovah warned the children of Israel about these nations. He said: You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you. They will certainly turn your hearts to go after their gods. Solomon loved his wives anyway.

Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well being for a very long time. That way you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for as long as they live.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?

I want you to swear by Jehovah God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

I solemnly promised my master I would do what he said. He told me: 'Do not choose a wife for my son from the women in this land of Canaan.

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and told him: Do not marry a Canaanite.

Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learned that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria. Jacob did as his father and mother said. He went to Paddan-aram. It was clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women.read more.
So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

They will lead your young people away from me to serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.

His father and mother asked him: Why do you go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can you not find someone in our own family or among all our people? Samson told his father: I like her! She is the one I want. Get her for me.

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? Would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

That way we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;

Remember, if they marry men of another tribe, their property will then belong to that tribe, and the total allotted to us will be reduced.

Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors,