Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

'Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

New American Standard Bible

asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’

King James Version

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Holman Bible

“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

International Standard Version

"Teacher, Moses said, "If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for his brother.'

A Conservative Version

Teacher, Moses said, If some man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

American Standard Version

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Amplified

saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, leaving no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his widow, and raise children for his brother.’

An Understandable Version

"Teacher, Moses said [in Deut. 25:5] that when a man dies without having had any children, his brother must marry his widow and father children by her, who would [then] be considered his [dead] brother's.

Anderson New Testament

saying: Teacher, Moses commanded, If any one die without children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.

Bible in Basic English

Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;

Common New Testament

saying, "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.

Daniel Mace New Testament

master, said they, by the law of Moses, in case a man die without children, his brother is oblig'd to marry his wife, in order to perpetuate his brother's name.

Darby Translation

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up seed to his brother.

Godbey New Testament

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any man may die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Goodspeed New Testament

"Master, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

John Wesley New Testament

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed to his brother.

Julia Smith Translation

Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

King James 2000

Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up children unto his brother.

Lexham Expanded Bible

saying, "Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

Modern King James verseion

saying, Master, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed to his brother.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

saying, "Master, Moses bade, if a man die having no children, that the brother marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Moffatt New Testament

"Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother.

Montgomery New Testament

"Master," they said, "Moses taught that if a man dies without issue, his brother is to marry the widow, and raise up a family for his brother.

NET Bible

"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'

New Heart English Bible

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

Noyes New Testament

saying, Teacher, Moses said, "If a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother."

Sawyer New Testament

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one dies having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.

The Emphasized Bible

saying - Teacher! Moses, said, If any man die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

saying, Master, Moses said, "If a man die having no children, his brother in right of affinity shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother."

Twentieth Century New Testament

"Teacher, Moses said--'Should a man die without children, the man's brother shall become the husband of the widow, and raise a family for his brother.'

Webster

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man shall die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Weymouth New Testament

"Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

Williams New Testament

"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children, his brother must marry his widow and raise up a family for him.'

World English Bible

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

Worrell New Testament

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If any one die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.'

Worsley New Testament

and asked Him, saying, Master, Moses said, If any man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

διδάσκαλος 
Didaskalos 
Usage: 48

Μωσεύς Μωσῆς Μωΰσῆς 
Moseus 
Usage: 60

ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

If
ἐάν 
Ean 
Usage: 155

a man
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

die
ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

no
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

τέκνον 
Teknon 
Usage: 69

his





Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

ἐπιγαμβρεύω 
Epigambreuo 
Usage: 1

γυνή 
Gune 
Usage: 187

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

raise up
ἀνίστημι 
Anistemi 
arise, rise, rise up, rise again, raise up, stand up, raise up again,
Usage: 86

σπέρμα 
Sperma 
Usage: 37

G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

Context Readings

A Question About Marriage And The Resurrection

23 In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying, 24 'Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother. 25 'And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;


Cross References

Genesis 38:8

And Judah saith to Onan, 'Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

Genesis 38:11

And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, 'Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, 'Lest he die -- even he -- like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house.

Deuteronomy 25:5-10

'When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

Ruth 1:11

And Naomi saith, 'Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands?

Matthew 7:21

'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 22:16

and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;

Matthew 22:36

Teacher, which is the great command in the Law?'

Mark 12:19

'Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one's brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Luke 6:46

'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

Luke 20:28

saying, 'Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

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