Mark 12:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one's brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

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  • Gen 38:8 : 8 And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'
  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother; 6 and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel. 7 `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother; 8 and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her; 9 `Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother; 10 and his name hath been called in Israel -- The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
  • Ruth 1:11-13 : 11 And Naomi saith, `Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons: 13 for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye shut yourselves up, not to be to a husband? nay, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of Jehovah hath gone out against me.'
  • Ruth 4:5 : 5 And Boaz saith, `In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, then from Ruth the Moabitess, wife of the dead, thou hast bought `it', to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance.'

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  • Luke 20:27-35
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    27And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,

    28saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

    29`There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

    30and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

    31and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;

    32and last of all died also the woman:

    33in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.'

    34And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

    35but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

  • Matt 22:23-26
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    23In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

    24`Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

    25`And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

    26in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

  • Mark 12:20-23
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    20`There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

    21and the second took her, and died, neither left he seed, and the third in like manner,

    22and the seven took her, and left no seed, last of all died also the woman;

    23in the rising again, then, whenever they may rise, of which of them shall she be wife -- for the seven had her as wife?'

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

    6and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

    7`And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;

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    18And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

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    8And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

    9and Onan knoweth that the seed is not `reckoned' his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed `it' to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;

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    28therefore in the rising again, of which of the seven shall she be wife -- for all had her?'

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    10and if he have no brethren, then ye have given his inheritance to his father's brethren;

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    25for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

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    38If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

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    19Why hast thou said, She `is' my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'