Luke 20:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.

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  • Gen 38:8 : 8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go to your brother’s wife, marry her, and raise offspring for your brother.
  • Gen 38:11 : 11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Stay a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up; for he thought, Lest he also die like his brothers. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
  • Gen 38:26 : 26 Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he never knew her again.
  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be put out of Israel. 7 And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.' 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him; and if he stands firm, and says, 'I do not want to take her,' 9 Then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his shoe from his foot, spit in his face, and shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house.' 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, 'The house of him who had his shoe removed.'
  • Ruth 1:11-12 : 11 And Naomi said, Turn back, my daughters: why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and also bear sons;

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  • Matt 22:23-31
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    23The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him,

    24Saying, Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies without having children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

    26Likewise the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

    27And last of all the woman died also.

    28Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.

    29Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

    30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven.

    31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

  • Mark 12:18-23
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    18Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him,

    19'Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and no children, his brother should marry the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

    20Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring.

    21The second took her, and died, leaving no offspring; and the third likewise.

    22So the seven had her and left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died also.

    23Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.

  • Luke 20:29-35
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    29There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

    30And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.

    31And the third took her; and likewise all seven left no children, and died.

    32Last of all the woman died also.

    33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife is she? for all seven had her as wife.

    34And Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

    35But those who are counted worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

  • Luke 20:27
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    27Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, came to him,

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

    6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be put out of Israel.

    7And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.'

  • Matt 19:7
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    7They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?

  • Mark 10:2-4
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    2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? testing him.

    3And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?

    4And they said, Moses allowed to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.

  • Gen 38:8
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    8Then Judah said to Onan, Go to your brother’s wife, marry her, and raise offspring for your brother.

  • Lev 20:21
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    21And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Mark 12:25-26
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    25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

    26But concerning the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

  • Matt 19:10
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    10His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.

  • Num 27:8-11
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    8And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

    9And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

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

    11And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest kinsman from his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be a statute of judgment to the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Luke 20:37
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    37Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed in the bush passage, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

  • Matt 19:3-4
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    3The Pharisees also came to him, testing him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?

    4And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

  • Matt 22:35
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    35Then one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him, and saying,

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

    3So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

  • Gen 24:38
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    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Deut 24:3
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    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'

  • Num 27:4
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    4Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he has no son? Give us, therefore, a possession among the brothers of our father.