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Mark 12:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Mark 12:20

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18 Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

19 “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.’

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

21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

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Luke 20:29

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Matthew 22:25

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"Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother."

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Luke 20:31

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"The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died."

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Deuteronomy 25:5

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"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her."

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Job 42:13

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"He had also seven sons and three daughters."

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Mark 12:1

"He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country."

Mark 12:2

"When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard."

Mark 12:3

"They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty."

Mark 12:4

"Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated."

Mark 12:5

"Again he sent another, and they killed him, and many others, beating some, and killing some."

Mark 12:6

"Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’"

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