ContradictionsReading order 445Bible context 2 min read
Will God destroy those that intermarry?
A prohibition tied to particular peoples is compared with foreign marriages elsewhere, but the supplied evidence does not show that every foreign spouse falls within the banned group.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
The foreign spouses are not established as members of the particular prohibited peoples or as causes of the religious defection specified by the rule.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Marrying the specified peoples brings a threat of destruction
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Deuteronomy 7:3-4
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Joseph and Moses have foreign wives without the stated penalty
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis 46:20
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)