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The Book of Mark, Chapter 12, Verse 19

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Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
New English Translation
Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
World English Bible
"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
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Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
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And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
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And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
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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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And Jesus answering said unto them, ‹Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?›
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‹For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.›
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‹And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I› [am] ‹the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?›
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‹He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.›
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And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
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And Jesus answered him, ‹The first of all the commandments› [is], ‹Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:›