Mark 12:19

Easy To Read Version

They said, “Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and he had no children, then his brother must marry the woman. Then they will have children for the dead brother. {\cf2\super [161]}

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Er’s brother Onan, “Go and sleep with your dead brother’s wife. [228] Become like a husband to her. If children are born, then they will belong to your brother Er.”

Mark 12:20

There were seven brothers. The first brother married but died. He had no children.

Luke 20:33

But all seven brothers married her. So when people rise from death, whose wife will this woman be?”

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said, “If you buy the land from Naomi, you also get the dead man’s wife, Ruth the Moabite woman. {When Ruth has a child, the child will get the land.} That way, the land will stay in the dead man’s family.”