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Judges 3:6

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4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.

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BSB
And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
KJV
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
WEB
They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
ASV
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
DARBY
and they took their daughters as wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
BLB
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
ÅB
tok de deres døtre til hustruer og gav sine døtre til deres sønner og dyrket deres guder.
OTB
De giftet seg med dem, tok deres døtre til koner og ga sine egne døtre til deres sønner, og de tjente deres guder.
B1930
tok de deres døtre til hustruer og gav sine døtre til deres sønner og dyrket deres guder.

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  • Exodus 34:16

    And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

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  • Deuteronomy 7:3–4

    Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

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  • 1 Kings 11:1–5

    But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

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  • Ezra 9:11–12

    Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

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  • Nehemiah 13:23–27

    In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

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  • Ezekiel 16:3

    And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

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