Luke 20:28

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They asked him,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

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  • Gen 38:8 : 8 Then Judah said to Onan,“Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”
  • Gen 38:11 : 11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar,“Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought,“I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
  • Gen 38:26 : 26 Judah recognized them and said,“She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He was not physically intimate with her again.
  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law. 6 Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel. 7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!” 8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,” 9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond,“Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!” 10 His family name will be referred to in Israel as“the family of the one whose sandal was removed.”
  • Ruth 1:11-12 : 11 But Naomi replied,“Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands! 12 Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons,

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

    24“Teacher, Moses said,‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

    26The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

    27Last of all, the woman died.

    28In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

    29Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

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

    31Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

  • Mark 12:18-23
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    18Marriage and the Resurrection Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

    19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us:‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

    20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

    21The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

    22None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

    23In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

  • Luke 20:29-35
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    29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

    30The second

    31and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.

    32Finally the woman died too.

    33In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

    34So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

    35But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

  • Luke 20:27
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    27Marriage and the Resurrection Now some Sadducees(who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

    6Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

    7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

  • Matt 19:7
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    7They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

  • Mark 10:2-4
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    2Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

    3He answered them,“What did Moses command you?”

    4They said,“Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”

  • Gen 38:8
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    8Then Judah said to Onan,“Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”

  • Lev 20:21
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    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will 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.

    26Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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    10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

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    8And you must tell the Israelites,‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

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    10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

    11and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

  • Luke 20:37
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    37But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

  • Matt 19:3-4
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    3Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

    4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

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    35And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

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

    3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

  • Gen 24:38
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    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Deut 24:3
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    3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

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    4Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”