Matthew 22:24
Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
KJV
λέγοντες· διδάσκαλε, Μωϋσῆς εἶπεν· ἐάν τις ἀποθάνῃ μὴ ἔχων τέκνα, ἐπιγαμβρεύσει ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀναστήσει σπέρμα τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ.
Greek NT
dicentes : Magister, Moyses dixit : Si quis mortuus fuerit non habens filium, ut ducat frater ejus uxorem illius, et suscitet semen fratri suo.
Vulgate
saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
ASV
Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.
Douay-Rheims
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4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- Deut 25:5 — If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wif
- Deut 25:5 — If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wif
- Lev 18:16 — Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
- Luke 20:28 — Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- Luke 20:33 — Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.
- Matt 14:6 — But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
- Ruth 3:13 — Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, the
- Ruth 4:5 — Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.