A moment in scripture
Mark 12:20
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Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 12:18
Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
- Mark 12:19
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- Mark 12:21
And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
- Mark 12:22
And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.