Luke 20:29

Luke chapter 20 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;

Context

v.28and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man’s brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

v.29This passage

v.30and the second:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 22:30
Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
Leviticus 20:20
And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.