Mark 12:19

Good News Translation

“Teacher, Moses wrote this law for us: ‘If a man dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man's brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children.’

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan, “Go and sleep with your brother's widow. Fulfill your obligation to her as her husband's brother, so that your brother may have descendants.”

Mark 12:20

Once there were seven brothers; the oldest got married and died without having children.

Luke 20:33

Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her.”

Ruth 4:5

Boaz said, “Very well, if you buy the field from Naomi, then you are also buying Ruth, the Moabite widow, so that the field will stay in the dead man's family.”