16 Then you will have to take some of their* daughters for your sons,+ and their daughters will be certain to have immoral intercourse* with their gods and make your sons have immoral intercourse with their gods.+

12 “But if YOU should turn back at all+ and YOU do cleave to what is left of these nations,+ these that remain with YOU, and YOU do form marriage alliances+ with them and go in among them, and they among YOU,

12 And now YOUR daughters do not YOU people give to their sons,+ neither their daughters do YOU accept for YOUR sons; and to time indefinite YOU must not work for their peace+ and their prosperity,* in order that YOU may grow strong+ and certainly eat the good of the land and indeed take possession [of it] for YOUR sons to time indefinite.’+

2 Then Shec·a·niʹah the son of Je·hiʹel+ of the sons of Eʹlam+ answered and said to Ezʹra: “We—we have acted unfaithfully against our God, so that we gave a dwelling to foreign wives from the peoples of the land.+ Yet now there exists a hope+ for Israel concerning this.

14 Do not become unevenly yoked* with unbelievers.+ For what fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have?+ Or what sharing does light have with darkness?+