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Thencomeuntohim the Sadducees,whichsay there isnoresurrection;and they askedhim,saying ,
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Master,Moseswrote unto us,Ifaman'sbrotherdie , andleave his wife behind him, andleavenochildren,thathisbrother should takehiswife,and raise upseed unto hisbrother.
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Now there weresevenbrethren:and the firsttook a wife,anddyingleftnoseed.
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And the secondtookher,anddied* , neitherlefthe any seed:and the thirdlikewise.
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And the sevenhadher,andleftnoseed:last of all the womandiedalso.
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In the resurrectiontherefore,when they shall rise , whosewife shall she be of them?for the sevenhadher to wife.
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AndJesusansweringsaid unto them, Do yenottherefore*err , because ye knownot the scriptures,neither the power of God?
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Forwhen they shall risefrom the dead, they neithermarry , nor are given in marriage ; butareas the angelswhich are inheaven.
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And as touching the dead,that they rise : have yenotreadin the book of Moses,howin the bushGodspake unto him,saying , I am the God of Abraham,and the God of Isaac,and the God of Jacob?
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He isnot the God of the dead,but the God of the living : yethereforedogreatlyerr .
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Andone of the scribescame , and having heardthem reasoning together , and perceivingthat he had answeredthemwell,askedhim,Whichis the firstcommandment of all?