¹⁶ Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

³ Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

⁴ For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

² The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

³ He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

⁴ For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

² For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

²⁵ And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

¹ Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

² For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

²³ And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

¹⁴ Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

¹⁵ And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,