Luke 20:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 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.
  • Gen 38:26 : 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
  • 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 1:11-12 : 11 Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? 12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

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  • Matt 22:23-31
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    23On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

    24saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

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

    26In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

    27After them all, the woman died.

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

    29But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

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

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

  • Mark 12:18-23
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    18There 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.'

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

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

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

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

  • Luke 20:29-35
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    85%

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

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

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

    32Afterward the woman also died.

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

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

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

  • Luke 20:27
    83%

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

  • Deut 25:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    5If 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.

    6It 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.

    7If 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 19:7
    72%

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 38:8
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    8Judah 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."

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

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

  • Mark 12:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

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

    26But 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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    10His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

  • Num 27:8-11
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    69%

    8You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

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

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

    11If his father have 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.

  • Luke 20:37
    69%

    37But 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.'

  • Matt 19:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • Matt 22:35
    68%

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

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    68%

    2For 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.

    3So 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.

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

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

  • Deut 24:3
    68%

    3If 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;

  • Matt 5:31
    68%

    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

  • Num 27:4
    68%

    4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.