And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Adam Clarke
Not give our daughters - Make no affinity with the people of the land.
When Israel was first brought into covenant with God it was done by sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, Ex. 24. But here it was done by the more natural and common way of sealing and subscribing…
Cambridge Bible
Prohibition of Intermarriage with the Heathen
we Observe the first person plural here introduced and maintained to Neh 10:39 throughout the rest of the Covenant details.
people R.V. peoples.
This…
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