Nehemiah 13:23-25

GOD’S WORD Translation

Nehemiah Dissolves Marriages to Foreigners

²³ In those days I saw some Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. ²⁴ Half their children spoke the language of Ashdod or one of the other languages, but they couldn’t understand the language of Judah well enough to speak it. ²⁵ So I reprimanded those Jews, cursed them, beat some of them, and pulled out their hair. I made them swear by God: “We won’t allow our daughters to marry their sons, and we won’t allow their daughters to marry us or our sons.”