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neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.
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A Guard Against Idolatry
Commentators explain that the primary reason for this prohibition was to prevent Israel from being drawn into idolatry. John Gill points to Solomon as a prime example of how marrying foreign women led to spiritual compromise. The command was a spiritual safeguard, not a matter of ethnic prejudice.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See (Deuteronomy 6:10) note.
(Deuteronomy 7:5) Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither shall you make marriages with them Unless they became proselytes, as Rahab, who was married by Salmon, and s…
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