KJV King James Version
Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Mark 12:20
Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died, leaving no children.
WEB World English Bible
There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
ASV American Standard Version
There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;
Surrounding context — Mark 12
17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
19 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.
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἑπτὰG2033 · heptasevenἀδελφοὶG80 · adelphosbrotherἦσαν·G1510 · eimito beκαὶG2532 · kaiandὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoπρῶτοςG4413 · prōtosfirstἔλαβενG2983 · lambanōto takeγυναῖκαG1135 · gunēwomanκαὶG2532 · kaiandἀποθνῄσκωνG599 · apothnēskōto dieοὐκG3756 · ounoἀφῆκενG863 · aphiēmito release: leaveσπέρμα.G4690 · spermaseed: offspring
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