Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drove out before you,

And you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and you shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:

and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.

And you shall keep My ordinances, that you may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time; and you shall not be polluted in them; for I [am] the Lord your God.

so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.

has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has done all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and sinners, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all who are false shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

And you shall be holy to Me; because I the Lord your God [am] holy, who separated you from all nations, to be Mine.

neither shall you contract marriages with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.

But thus shall you do to them: you shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and cut down their groves, and you shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

There is not [any such] as the God of the beloved; He who rides upon the heaven [is] your helper, and the Magnificent One of the firmament.

And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with grain and wine; and the sky [shall be] misty with dew upon you.

They were joined also to Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked Him with their deeds;

They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them [to destroy];

And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them.

and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood,

in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was holiness unto the Lord, [and] the firstfruits of His increase. All that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.

And I brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the goods thereof; and you went in, and defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination.

The priest said not, Where is the Lord? And they that held by the law knew Me not: the shepherds also sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort- how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord.

[ 6:2] And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

[ 6:3] that the sons of God, having seen the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

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

And King Solomon was a lover of women. And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite and Ammonite women, Syrians and Edomites, Hittites and Amorites;

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Sidonians.

Then Solomon built a high place to Chemosh the idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon.

And when these things were finished, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands in their abominations, [even] the Cannanite, the Hittites, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, and the Moserite and the Amorite.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and their sons, and the holy seed has passed among the nations of the lands, and the hand of the rulers [has been] first in this transgression.

And now give not your daughters to their sons, and take not of their daughters for your sons, neither shall you ever seek their peace or their goods, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and transmit it as an inheritance to your children forever.

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have broken covenant with our God, and have taken strange wives of the nations of the land. Yet now there is patience [of hope] to Israel concerning this thing.

And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.

And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying,] You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons.

So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, to marry strange wives.

Remember them, O God, for their [false] connection with the priesthood, and [the breaking] the covenant of the priesthood, and [for defiling] the Levites.

But they are as a man transgressing a covenant.

Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there for righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion is there for light with darkness?

And what union is there for the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

"I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."