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And 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 for your sons, or for yourselves.
and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.