Mark 12:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

Mark 12:20

There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children;

Luke 20:33

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also buying Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the dead, in order to restore the name of the dead to his inheritance.”