19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone’s brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and father[a] descendants for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he[b] died, he did not leave descendants. 21 And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:19 Literally “raise up”
  2. Mark 12:20 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“died”) which is understood as temporal