Judges 3:6
Good News Translation
They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Exodus 34:16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:2,4 And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them: . . .

1 Kings 11:1-5 And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites: . . .

Ezra 9:11,12 Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land, according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their filth. . . .

Nehemiah 13:23-27 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. . . .

Ezekiel 16:3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.

Context
Nations Left to Test Israel
5So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: 6And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
Cross References
Exodus 34:15
Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Exodus 34:16
Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

Deuteronomy 7:4
For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee.

Joshua 23:12
But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

Psalm 106:35
And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

Judges 3:5
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