Matthew 22:24

World English Bible (2000)

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

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  • Luke 6:46 : 46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
  • Luke 20:28 : 28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
  • Gen 38:8 : 8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
  • Gen 38:11 : 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. 7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me." 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;" 9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house." 10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.
  • Ruth 1:11 : 11 Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
  • Matt 7:21 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.
  • Matt 22:36 : 36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
  • Mark 12:19 : 19 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'

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  • Luke 20:27-35
    9 verses
    95%

    27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

    28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

    29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

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

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

    32 Afterward the woman also died.

    33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."

    34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

    35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

  • Mark 12:18-23
    6 verses
    93%

    18 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

    19 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'

    20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

    21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

    22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

    23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

  • Matt 22:25-28
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    86%

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

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

    27 After them all, the woman died.

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

  • Deut 25:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

    6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

    7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."

  • Matt 22:23
    79%

    23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

  • Matt 22:30-31
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    73%

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

    31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

  • Matt 19:7
    71%

    7 They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

  • Gen 38:8
    70%

    8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

  • Mark 10:2-4
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    70%

    2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

    3 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

    4 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

  • Num 27:8-11
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    8 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.

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

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

    11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.'"

  • Mark 12:25-26
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    70%

    25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

    26 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, 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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    10 His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

  • Deut 24:3
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    3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Lev 20:21
    69%

    21 "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Num 36:6
    69%

    6 This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

  • Gen 24:38
    69%

    38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Matt 19:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

    4 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Matt 22:35
    67%

    35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

  • John 11:23
    67%

    23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

  • Luke 20:37
    67%

    37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'