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Then come unto him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
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Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother dies and leaves
his wife
behind him and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto 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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Then 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, neither shall they marry nor husbands take women nor women, husbands; but are as the angels who are in the heavens.
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And regarding the dead who are to rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses how in the bush God spoke 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 God of the dead, but God of the living; ye therefore do greatly err.
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And one of the scribes came, having heard their dispute and knowing that he had given a good response unto them, asked him, Which is the principal commandment of all?