Luke 20:28

New King James Version

saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

And Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.”

Genesis 38:26

So Judah acknowledged them and said, “She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he never knew her again.

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house till my son Shelah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die like his brothers.” And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

Luke 20:29

Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children.