Judges 3:6

Modern

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Traditional

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Literal

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.

Latin

…et duxerunt uxores filias eorum, ipsique filias suas filiis eorum tradiderunt, et servierunt diis eorum.

Hebrew

English

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Israel did not pass God's test (Judges 3:1–4). Marrying people from other groups led Israel to worship the fertility gods of the Canaanites.

The second prologue continues from the events of Joshua 23–24 (see study note on Judges 1:1–3:6). It introduces a third generation (Judges 2:10) who did not personally witness the Lord’s mighty acts.

Theme notes and profiles

Exodus 34:16
And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
Deuteronomy 7:3–4
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
1 Kings 11:1–5
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Ezra 9:11–12
…that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
Ezekiel 16:3
…and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Nehemiah 13:23–27
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.