12Whatever you do, don''t give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor marry your sons to their daughters. Don''t cultivate their good opinion; don''t make over them and get them to like you so you can make a lot of money and build up a tidy estate to hand down to your children.''b
Ezra 9 records a crisis of covenant faithfulness. Ezra learns that the returned exiles, including priests and Levites, have intermarried with the surrounding peoples who practice idolatry. This is not a matter of ethnic purity but of spiritual fidelity: such marriages had led Isr
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