Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children — the seven-brothers scenario is a constructed case designed to maximize the absurdity of resurrection in the context of levirate marriage. The repetition through seven brothers is the reductio ad absurdum: the levirate law requires that each brother marry the widow, producing a situation in the resurrection that is supposedly impossible to resolve.

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