which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, 'The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end and with their impurity.The Israelites were commanded not to marry foreigners from the land they were invading. Yet here they have done it, so now we're looking back on why it's a problem. From my perspective, I don't think God would have had an issue with any foreigners who had come to know God being married to a Jew. Look at Rahab, she obviously did, and was in Jesus' lineage. So it's not a matter of bloodline or ethnicity.
The real reason is shown in this verse. These people are unclean in their actions. They do what's wrong, and do it a lot. If you marry them, do you think they're just going to stop doing those bad things? Almost certainly not. Instead, they're going to continue to do them, and they'll either wear down your awareness of the evil of the action, or convince you to actively participate yourself. You're not supposed to marry a foreigner (or, in modern context, a non-believer) to prevent yourself from being dragged into sin.
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