Nehemiah 10:30

30 and that we will not, give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons.

Nehemiah 10:30 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 10:30

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of
the land, nor take their daughters for our sons
Intermarry with them as they had done, and were prone to do, and even did after this, ( Nehemiah 13:23 ) .

Nehemiah 10:30 In-Context

28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nathinim, and every one who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding,

29 were urgent with their brethren, and bound them under a curse, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God; to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord, and his judgments, and his ordinances;

30 and that we will not, give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons.

31 And the people of the land who bring wares and all merchandise to sell on the sabbath-day, we not buy of them on the sabbath or on the holy day: and we will leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

32 And we will impose ordinances upon ourselves, to levy on ourselves the third part of a didrachm yearly for the service of the house of our God;