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And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,
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`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.
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`There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;
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and the second took her, and died, neither left he seed, and the third in like manner,
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and the seven took her, and left no seed, last of all died also the woman;
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in the rising again, then, whenever they may rise, of which of them shall she be wife -- for the seven had her as wife?'
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And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?
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for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.
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`And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to 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 dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'
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And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?'