Mark 12:19 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote to us [Deut. 25:5] that if a man’s brother dies, leaving his widow behind without having had any children, his brother should marry his widow and father children by her. These children would then be considered his [dead] brother’s.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Teacher, Moses gave us [a law] that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. [Deut. 25:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a widow but no children, the brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if any man's brother will have died and left behind a wife, and not have left behind sons, his brother should take his wife to himself and should raise up offspring for his brother.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Master, Moses wrote unto us, that if any man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Mark 12:19 Cross References

Mark 12:20

[Now] there were [these] seven brothers; the first one got married, but when he died he left no children behind.

Luke 20:33

[Now] whose wife will she be in the resurrected state, for all seven [brothers] were married to her?”