The Damascus Document on Separation from Non-Jews

For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life. [ . . . ]…

Then the Lysimachuses, Molons, and other such disreputable sophists, those deceivers of young men, revile us as the most inferior of men. I, on the other hand, would not have wished to inquire into…

“You observe,” he said, “what kind of result is produced by conduct and associations, since people who associate with evildoers become perverted, and they are miserable in the whole of life. But if…

But also, he says, do not enter into the partnership of marriage with a member of a foreign nation, lest some day conquered by the forces of opposing customs you surrender and stray unawares from the…

Driven mad over women and mired in the heat of sexual passion, he [Solomon] was not satisfied with the native women alone, also marrying many women among the foreign peoples: the Sidonians, Tyrians…

All the descendants of his [Abraham’s—Ed.] sons would become nations and be numbered with the nations. But one of Isaac’s sons…