Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Should we listen to you and do all of this terrible evil by transgressing against our God to marry foreign wives?"
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Holman Bible
Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
A Conservative Version
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
American Standard Version
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
Amplified
Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign (pagan) women?”
Bible in Basic English
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
Darby Translation
And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
Julia Smith Translation
And to you shall we hear to do all this great evil to transgress against our God to cause strange women to dwell.
King James 2000
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
Modern King James verseion
Shall we then listen to you, to do all this great evil, to sin against our God in living with foreign women?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And shall we then obey unto you, to do all this great evil, and to transgress against our God, and marry strange wives?"
NET Bible
Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?"
New Heart English Bible
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"
The Emphasized Bible
Unto you, then, shall we hearken, to do all this great wickedness, to act unfaithfully with our God, - by marrying foreign wives?
Webster
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?
World English Bible
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"
Youngs Literal Translation
And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Persons in authority should denounce
the Ammonites » The jews reprobated for intermarrying with
Marriage » Wives among the israelites must be israelites
Marriage » The reward for marrying idolaters
Topics
Interlinear
Shama`
Gadowl
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'elohiym
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 13:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mixed Marriages Are Condemned
26 Didn't Solomon, king of Israel, sin by doing these things, even though among many nations there was no king like him who was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel? Even so, foreign women caused him to sin. 27 Should we listen to you and do all of this terrible evil by transgressing against our God to marry foreign wives?" 28 One of the sons of Eliashib the high priest's son Joiada was a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.
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Names
Cross References
Ezra 10:2
Jehiel's son Shecaniah, one of Elam's descendants, responded to Ezra: "We have sinned against our God by marrying foreign wives from the people of the land, but even now there is hope in Israel, despite this.
1 Samuel 30:24
Who will listen to you in this matter? Indeed, the share of those who went down into battle and the share of those who stayed with the supplies will be the same. They'll share alike."