Miscegenation

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 24:3 OT

  I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

• Genesis 28:1 OT

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Exodus 34:12-16 OT

  Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you; but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah…

• Deuteronomy 7:3 OT

  You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

• Deuteronomy 7:4 OT

  For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

• Joshua 23:12 OT

  “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

• Exodus 34:16 OT

  and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

• Joshua 23:13 OT

  know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land…

• Judges 3:6 OT

  They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

• Judges 3:7 OT

  The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

• Numbers 12:1 OT

  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

• Genesis 26:34 OT

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

• Genesis 26:35 OT

  They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

• Numbers 25:1 OT

  Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

• Numbers 25:6-8 OT

  Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.…

• Judges 3:5-8 OT

  The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.…