Mark 12:20
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New International Version (©2011)
Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Well, suppose there were seven brothers. The oldest one married and then died without children.

English Standard Version (©2001)
There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring.

International Standard Version (©2012)
There were seven brothers. The first one married and died without having children.

NET Bible (©2006)
There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“There were seven brothers; the first took a wife and he died and left no son behind.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There were seven brothers. The first got married and died without having children.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no children.

American King James Version
Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

American Standard Version
There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no issue.

Darby Bible Translation
There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying did not leave seed;

English Revised Version
There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;

Webster's Bible Translation
Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

Weymouth New Testament
There were once seven brothers, the eldest of whom married a wife, but at his death left no family.

World English Bible
There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

Young's Literal Translation
'There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:18-27 A right knowledge of the Scripture, as the fountain whence all revealed religion now flows, and the foundation on which it is built, is the best preservative against error. Christ put aside the objection of the Sadducees, who were the scoffing infidels of that day, by setting the doctrine of the future state in a true light. The relation between husband and wife, though appointed in the earthly paradise, will not be known in the heavenly one. It is no wonder if we confuse ourselves with foolish errors, when we form our ideas of the world of spirits by the affairs of this world of sense. It is absurd to think that the living God should be the portion and happiness of a man if he is for ever dead; and therefore it is certain that Abraham's soul exists and acts, though now for a time separate from the body. Those that deny the resurrection greatly err, and ought to be told so. Let us seek to pass through this dying world, with a joyful hope of eternal happiness, and of a glorious resurrection.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now there were seven brethren,.... In a certain family, at a certain place; perhaps at Jerusalem, who were brethren by the father's side; for such only were reckoned so, and such only did this law oblige:

and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed: no child: hence it is clear that the ancient Jews used the word seed, of a single person, as these Sadducees did; though modern ones deny such an use of it in our present controversies with them about the sense of Genesis 3:15; See Gill on Matthew 22:25.

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Sadducees Question the Resurrection
18Then come to him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. 20Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. …

Mark 12:19 "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Mark 12:21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third.