Marriages of Israelites with women of Ammon or Moab are nowhere in the Law expressly forbidden, as were marriages with the women of Canaan Deuteronomy 7:1. In the days of Nehemiah the special law Deuteronomy 23:3 was interpreted as forbidding them, and as excluding the children of such marriages from the congregation of Israel Nehemiah 13:1. Probably the marriages of Mahlon and Chilion would be justified by necessity, living as they were in a foreign land. Ruth was the wife of the older brother, Mahlon Ruth 4:10.

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