Mark 12:19

Modern English Version

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves his wife behind, but leaves no children, that man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go have relations with your brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up descendants for your brother.”

Mark 12:20

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and when he died, he left no children.

Luke 20:33

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the deceased, to perpetuate the name of the deceased through his inheritance.”