Luke 20:29

Now there were shiva achim. And the first took an isha, and died UVEN EIN LO (and there is no son to him).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

In Context

28Saying, Rabbi, Moshe Rabbenu laid it down in writing to us, if someoneʼs ach dies and has an isha, and UVEN EIN LO (and there is no son to him), that he should take the almanah of his ach and he should raise up a zera (seed) to his ach. + 20:28 Dt 25:5

30And the second took her to be his isha, and he died childless.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 22:30Thus saith Hashem: 1 Write ye this ish ariri (childless), + 22:30 stripped of the honor that progeny bestows 1 a gever (man) who shall not prosper in his days; 1 for none of his zera shall prosper, 1 sitting upon the kisse Dovid, 1 or moshel od (rule anymore) in Yehudah.

Matthew Henry on Luke 20:28-39

The Cavil of the Sadducees. 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like… Read the whole commentary →

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