Mark 12:19
“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.’
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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.”
- 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 1:11-13 : 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, 13 surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the LORD is afflicting me!”
- Ruth 4:5 : 5 Then Boaz said,“When you acquire the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of our deceased relative, in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property.”
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- Luke 20:27-359 verses94%
27 Marriage and the Resurrection Now some Sadducees(who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.
28 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.
29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.
30 The second
31 and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.
32 Finally the woman died too.
33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”
34 So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
35 But 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.
- Matt 22:23-264 verses93%
23 Marriage 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.’
25 Now 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.
26 The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.
- Mark 12:20-234 verses87%
20 There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.
21 The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.
22 None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.
23 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”
- Deut 25:5-73 verses80%
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!”
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18 Marriage and the Resurrection Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,
- Gen 38:8-92 verses73%
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.”
9 But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he wasted his emission on the ground so as not to give his brother a descendant.
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28 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”
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7 They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”
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21 If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
- Num 27:8-114 verses71%
8 And you must tell the Israelites,‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;
9 and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
11 and 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.’”
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10 The 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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31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
- Mark 10:3-42 verses69%
3 He answered them,“What did Moses command you?”
4 They said,“Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”
- Mark 12:25-262 verses69%
25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
26 Now 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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3 If 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,
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12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
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13 The Parable of the Rich Landowner Then someone from the crowd said to him,“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
- Matt 19:3-42 verses67%
3 Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”
4 He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
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3 So 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.
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1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
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9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
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6 This is what the LORD has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters:‘Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.
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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!”
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19 Why did you say,‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”