Judges 3:6 “And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their ow…”

Judges 3:6

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

American Standard Version

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they tooke their daughters to bee their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.

Darby Translation

and they took their daughters as wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Young's Literal Translation

and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;

Bible in Basic English

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

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Cross references

“And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.”

Exodus 34:16 1 Kings 11:1–5 Nehemiah 13:23–27 Ezekiel 16:3 Deuteronomy 7:3 Deuteronomy 7:4

Exodus 34:16 · BSB

And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

1 Kings 11:1–5 · BSB

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Nehemiah 13:23–27 · BSB

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Ezekiel 16:3 · BSB

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Deuteronomy 7:3 · BSB

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Deuteronomy 7:4 · BSB

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

7So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

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