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24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said [in Deut 25:5] ‘If someone dies not having children, his brother shall as-next-of-kin-marry[a] his wife and raise-up a seed[b] for his brother’. 25 Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first, having married, came-to-an-end[c]. And not having a seed, he left his wife to his brother. 26 Likewise also the second, and the third, up to the seventh.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:24 This marriage-as-next-of-kin is called ‘levirite’ marriage (from a Latin word meaning ‘brother-in-law’).
  2. Matthew 22:24 That is, offspring; and thus, a posterity.
  3. Matthew 22:25 That is, died.

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