Mark 12:19

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“Rabbi, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

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

Mark 12:20

There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

Luke 20:33

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them 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 must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”