Nehemiah 13:27
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?In other versions
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
ASV
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
BBE
And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
DBY
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
WEB
And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'
YLT
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
ENG
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?
WBT
Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
BSB
In context
25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.