Nehemiah 13:23-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

²⁴ And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.

²⁵ And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying: