Matthew 22:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;

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  • Luke 6:46 : 46 Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
  • Luke 20:28 : 28 Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.
  • Gen 38:8 : 8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.
  • Gen 38:11 : 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.
  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do. 6 Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel. 7 But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do. 8 Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her; 9 Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name. 10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
  • Ruth 1:11 : 11 But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?
  • Matt 7:21 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.
  • Matt 22:36 : 36 Master, which is the chief rule in the law?
  • Mark 12:19 : 19 Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

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  • Luke 20:27-35
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    27 And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,

    28 Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.

    29 Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;

    30 And the second;

    31 And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.

    32 And last of all, the woman came to her end.

    33 When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.

    34 And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;

    35 But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

  • Mark 12:18-23
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    18 And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,

    19 Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

    20 There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

    21 And the second took her, and at his death there were no offspring; and the third the same:

    22 And all the seven had no seed. Last of all the woman herself came to her death.

    23 In the future life, when they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for the seven had her for a wife.

  • Matt 22:25-28
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    25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

    26 In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh.

    27 And last of all the woman came to her end.

    28 When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

    6 Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

    7 But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

  • Matt 22:23
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    23 On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,

  • Matt 22:30-31
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    30 For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

    31 But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:

  • Matt 19:7
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    7 They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

  • Gen 38:8
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    8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

  • Mark 10:2-4
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    2 And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?

    3 And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?

    4 And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her.

  • Num 27:8-11
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    8 And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.

    9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.

    10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

    11 And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Mark 12:25-26
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    25 When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

    26 But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

  • Matt 19:10
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    10 The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

  • Deut 24:3
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    3 And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

  • Lev 20:21
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    21 And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

  • Num 36:6
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    6 This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.

  • Gen 24:38
    69%

    38 But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

  • Matt 19:3-4
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    3 And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

    4 And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    67%

    2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

    3 So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

  • Deut 24:1
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    1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • Matt 22:35
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    35 And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,

  • John 11:23
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    23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.

  • Luke 20:37
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    37 But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.