Nehemiah 10:30
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And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.

Exodus 34:16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

Ezra 9:1-3,12-14 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Ezra 10:10-12 And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel. . . .

Context
The Vows of the Covenant
29All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies. 30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.31And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:16
Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Nehemiah 13:25
And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:

Nehemiah 13:30
So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:

Lexicon
We will not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

give
נִתֵּ֥ן (nit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

our daughters {in marriage}
בְּנֹתֵ֖ינוּ (bə·nō·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

to the people
לְעַמֵּ֣י (lə·‘am·mê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

of the land,
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

and we will not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

take
נִקַּ֖ח (niq·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

their daughters
בְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם (bə·nō·ṯê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

for our sons.
לְבָנֵֽינוּ׃ (lə·ḇā·nê·nū)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son


Additional Translations
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:

and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

and that we will not, they said,give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons.

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;
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