MARK 12:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
Teacher, they said, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother — the Sadducees begin with the levirate marriage law of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 — the law designed to preserve a dead man's lineage by having his brother marry his widow. The law is real and the obligation was taken seriously in ancient Israel.
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