Judges 3:6
New International Version
They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

New Living Translation
and they intermarried with them. Israelite sons married their daughters, and Israelite daughters were given in marriage to their sons. And the Israelites served their gods.

English Standard Version
And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

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

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

New King James Version
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods.

New American Standard Bible
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

NASB 1995
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

NASB 1977
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Legacy Standard Bible
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Amplified Bible
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their [pagan] gods.

Christian Standard Bible
The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

American Standard Version
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they took wives for themselves from their daughters, and their daughters they gave to their sons

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.

English Revised Version
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Israelites allowed their sons and daughters to marry these people. Israel also served their gods.

Good News Translation
They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.

International Standard Version
taking their daughters as wives for themselves, giving their own daughters to their sons, and serving their gods.

JPS Tanakh 1917
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Literal Standard Version
and take their daughters to them for wives, and have given their daughters to their sons, and they serve their gods;

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

New American Bible
They took their daughters in marriage, and gave their own daughters to their sons in marriage, and served their gods.

NET Bible
They took the Canaanites' daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

New Revised Standard Version
and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they worshiped their gods.

New Heart English Bible
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

World English Bible
They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Young's Literal Translation
and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;

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Context
Nations Left to Test Israel
5Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 6And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Cross References
Exodus 34:15
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

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

Deuteronomy 7:4
because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Joshua 23:12
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

Psalm 106:35
but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Exodus 34:16
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:2,4
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: …

1 Kings 11:1-5
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; …

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(6) And they took their daughters.--This beginning of intermarriages shows that we are now a generation removed from the days of Joshua. Such marriages had been forbidden in Deuteronomy 7:3. but are not among the sins denounced by the Angel-messenger at Bochim (Judges 2:1).

Verse 6. - They took their daughters, etc. Here is a further downward step in the disobedience of the Israelites. Intermarriage with the Canaanite nations had been expressly forbidden (Exodus 34:15, 16; Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 23:12), and the reason of the prohibition clearly stated, and for some time after Joshua's death no such marriages appear to have been contracted. But now the fatal step was taken, and the predicted consequence immediately ensued: "they served their gods;.., they forgat the Lord their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth."

CHAPTER 3:7-11 This section introduces us into the actual narrative of the Book of Judges, the prefatory matter being now concluded. The whole book proceeds on the same model as this section does. The apostasy of Israel; their servitude under the oppressor sent to chastise them; their cry of distress and penitence; their deliverance by the judge raised up to save them; the rest which follows their deliverance. There is infinite variety in the details of the successive narratives, but they are all formed on the same plan.

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Hebrew
And they took
וַיִּקְח֨וּ (way·yiq·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

the daughters [of these people]
בְּנוֹתֵיהֶ֤ם (bə·nō·w·ṯê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

in marriage,
לְנָשִׁ֔ים (lə·nā·šîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

gave
נָתְנ֣וּ (nā·ṯə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

their own daughters
בְּנוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם (bə·nō·w·ṯê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

to their sons,
לִבְנֵיהֶ֑ם (liḇ·nê·hem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and served
וַיַּעַבְד֖וּ (way·ya·‘aḇ·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave

their gods.
אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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