24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and father[a] descendants for his brother. 25 Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died after[b] getting married, and because he[c] did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother. 26 So also the second and the third, up to the seventh.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:24 Literally “raise up”
  2. Matthew 22:25 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“getting married”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Matthew 22:25 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have”) which is understood as causal