World English Bible
Mark 12:20
“There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.”
Verse in context — Mark 12
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There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,
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Teacher, 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.
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There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
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The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
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and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
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