Mark 12:19

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

“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.

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?”