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Matthew 22:25
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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Matthew 22:26
In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

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Deuteronomy 25:5
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.

Deuteronomy 25:6
It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:7
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

Deuteronomy 25:8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”

Deuteronomy 25:9
then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

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Mark 12:20
There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

Luke 20:29
There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

Luke 20:30
The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

Luke 20:31
The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.

Luke 20:32
Afterward the woman also died.

Luke 20:33
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”

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