Nehemiah 13:27
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our Elohim in marrying strange wives?
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25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by Elohim, , Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his Elohim, and Elohim made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our Elohim in marrying strange wives?
28 And of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
29 Remember them, O my Elohim, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.