For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?