Mark 12:19

New American Bible - revised edition

saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Onan, “Have intercourse with your brother’s wife, in fulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve your brother’s line.”

Mark 12:20

Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.

Luke 20:33

Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”

Ruth 4:5

Boaz continued, “When you acquire the field from Naomi, you also acquire responsibility for Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the late heir, to raise up a family for the deceased on his estate.”