²¹ So the next oldest married her, left her a widow, and again there were no children. So the next brother married her and died, and the next, and the next. ²² Finally all seven brothers had married her, but none of them had conceived children with her, and at last she died also.

²³ Tell us then, in the resurrection [when humans rise from the dead],^[a] whose wife will she be? For all seven of them married her.