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In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
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and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews` language, but according to the language of each people.
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I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.