83 ‘The land, which you enter into to possess as an inheritance, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the foreigners of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness. (WEB) 84 Therefore now you shall not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you take their daughters for your sons. (WEB) 85 You shall never seek to have peace with them, that you may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.’ (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:83–85
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