Luke 20:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:20 : 20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
  • Jer 22:30 : 30 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

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  • Mark 12:18-23
    6 verses
    94%

    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."

  • Matt 22:24-28
    5 verses
    92%

    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."

  • Luke 20:30-35
    6 verses
    92%

    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 20:27-28
    2 verses
    85%

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

    28They 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.

  • Deut 25:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Lev 20:20-21
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    20If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

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

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    71%

    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.

  • Num 27:9-10
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    71%

    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.

  • Deut 21:15
    71%

    15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Deut 20:7
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    7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • 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."

  • Luke 18:29
    70%

    29He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

  • Matt 19:7
    69%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:38-39
    2 verses
    69%

    38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

    39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

  • 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;

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    68%

    7Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don't be diminished.

  • Matt 19:29
    68%

    29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

  • Mark 10:29
    68%

    29Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the Gospel's sake,

  • Deut 24:1
    68%

    1When 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.

  • Judg 21:7
    68%

    7How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

  • Gen 19:31
    68%

    31The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

  • Gen 38:8
    68%

    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."

  • Exod 21:10
    68%

    10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Ruth 1:5
    68%

    5Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Num 36:11
    68%

    11for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.

  • Lev 21:2
    68%

    2except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,