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Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
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Verse 12. Peace. Alliance, ( Menochius.) or advantage. See Psalms 121:8. Moses had thus proscribed the Moabites, and so forth as he had done the people of Chanaan still more severely. The Israelites were to execute God’s decrees. Deuteronomy 23:6. Calmet.—The obstinate idolaters were to be exterminated.
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