3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Other Translations of Deuteronomy 7:3

King James Version

3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

English Standard Version

3 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

The Message

3 Don't marry them: Don't give your daughters to their sons and don't take their daughters for your sons -

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters,

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:3

Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:1-11

(Read Deuteronomy 7:1-11)

Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God, must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Limiting the orders to destroy, to the nations here mentioned, plainly shows that after ages were not to draw this into a precedent. A proper understanding of the evil of sin, and of the mystery of a crucified Saviour, will enable us to perceive the justice of God in all his punishments, temporal and eternal. We must deal decidedly with our lusts that war against our souls; let us not show them any mercy, but mortify, and crucify, and utterly destroy them. Thousands in the world that now is, have been undone by ungodly marriages; for there is more likelihood that the good will be perverted, than that the bad will be converted. Those who, in choosing yoke-fellows, keep not within the bounds of a profession of religion, cannot promise themselves helps meet for them.