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                         FEW BIBILE QUOTES

                          ABOUT ENDOGAMY



          Genesis 24 : 2 -4
          Abraham said to the senior servant in his household, the
          steward  of all his property, ‘Place your hand under my thigh:
          I    am     going        to    make      you     swear     by
          Yahweh, God of heaven and God of  earth, that  you will not
          choose a wife for my son from the daughters of  the Canaanites
          among whom I live but will go to my native land  and my own
          kinsfolk to choose a wife for my son Isaac.’

          Tobit  4 – 12
          My child, avoid all loose conduct. Choose a wife of your father’s
          stock. Do not take a foreign wife outside your father’s tribe,
          because  we are the children of the prophets. Remember Noah,
          Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our ancestors from the beginning.
          All of them took wives from their own kindred, and they were
          blessed in their  children, and their race will inherit the earth.

          Ezra 10 – 15
          While Ezra, weeping and prostrating himself in front of
          the Temple  of God, was praying and making confession, a very
          large crowd of men, women and children of Israel gathered
          round him, the people weeping bitterly.  Then Shechaniah son
          of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra,
          ‘We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign
          women from the people of the country. But, in spite of this,
          there is still some hope for Israel.  We will make a covenant with
          our God to send away all the foreign wives and their




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