400 B
400 B
Should we then listen to you and do all this great evil, and act unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?
Nehemiah uses a rhetorical question to scold the men. This can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "We will not listen to you or do this great evil or act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)