'Marrying' in the Bible

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?"

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.