Nehemiah 10:30

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

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

Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,

They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.