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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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