Nehemiah 13:27
Nehemiah 13:27 King James Version (KJV)
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Nehemiah 13:23-27 The Message (MSG)
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Half the children couldn’t even speak the language of Judah; all they knew was the language of Ashdod or some other tongue. So I took those men to task, gave them a piece of my mind, even slapped some of them and jerked them by the hair. I made them swear to God: “Don’t marry your daughters to their sons; and don’t let their daughters marry your sons—and don’t you yourselves marry them! Didn’t Solomon the king of Israel sin because of women just like these? Even though there was no king quite like him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel, foreign women were his downfall. Do you call this obedience—engaging in this extensive evil, showing yourselves faithless to God by marrying foreign wives?”
Nehemiah 13:27 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
Nehemiah 13:27 New Century Version (NCV)
And now you are not obedient when you do this evil thing. You are unfaithful to our God when you marry foreign wives.”
Nehemiah 13:27 American Standard Version (ASV)
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
Nehemiah 13:27 New International Version (NIV)
Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?”
Nehemiah 13:27 New King James Version (NKJV)
Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”
Nehemiah 13:27 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign (pagan) women?”