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Myles Coverdale Bible

Luke 20:30

and the seconde toke the wife, and deyed without children also:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Resurrection;   Sadducees;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Resurrection;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Resurrection;   Son of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood of Jesus;   Immortality (2);   Israel, Israelite;   Levirate Law ;   Marriage (Ii.);   Resurrection of the Dead;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Resurrection;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Also the second
King James Version (1611)
And the second tooke her to wife, and he died childlesse.
King James Version
And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
English Standard Version
And the second
New American Standard Bible
and the second
New Century Version
Then the second brother married the widow, and he died.
Amplified Bible
"And the second,
Legacy Standard Bible
and the second
Berean Standard Bible
Then the second
Contemporary English Version
The second one married his brother's widow, and he also died without having any children.
Complete Jewish Bible
then the second
Darby Translation
and the second [took the woman, and *he* died childless];
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the second brother married the woman, and he died.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the second tooke the wife, and he dyed childelesse.
George Lamsa Translation
The second married his wife, and he died without children.
Good News Translation
Then the second one married the woman,
Lexham English Bible
and the second,
Literal Translation
And the second took the wife, and this one died childless.
American Standard Version
and the second:
Bible in Basic English
And the second;
Hebrew Names Version
The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
International Standard Version
Then the second
Etheridge Translation
And the second took his wife, and he died without children.
Murdock Translation
And the second took her to wife; and he died without children.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the seconde toke her, and he dyed chyldlesse.
English Revised Version
and the second;
World English Bible
The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
Weymouth's New Testament
The second and the third also took her;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the brothir suynge took hir, and he is deed with outen sone;
Update Bible Version
and the second:
Webster's Bible Translation
And the second took her for a wife, and he died childless.
New English Translation
The second
New King James Version
And the second Luke 20:30 here.">[fn] took her as wife, and he died childless.
New Living Translation
So the second brother married the widow, but he also died.
New Life Bible
The second brother took her for his wife. He died without children.
New Revised Standard
then the second
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the second,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the next took her to wife: and he also died childless.
Revised Standard Version
and the second
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the seconde toke the wyfe and he dyed chyldlesse.
Young's Literal Translation
and the second took the wife, and he died childless,
Mace New Testament (1729)
the second after marrying the widow, died likewise without children.
Simplified Cowboy Version
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the second

Contextual Overview

27 Then came vnto him certayne of the Saduces (which holde that there is no resurreccion) and axed him, 28 and sayde: Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, yf eny mans brother dye hauynge a wife, and dyeth without childre, then shal his brother take his wife, and rayse vp sede vnto his brother. 29 Now were there seue brethre: the first toke a wife, and dyed childlesse: 30 and the seconde toke the wife, and deyed without children also: 31 and the thirde toke her, likewyse all the seue, and left no children behynde the, and dyed. 32 At the last after them all, the woman dyed also. 33 Now in the resurreccion, whose wife shal she be of them For seuen had her to wife. 34 And Iesus answered and saide vnto them: The childre of this worlde mary, & are maried, 35 but they yt shalbe worthy to enioye that worlde and the resurreccion from the deed, shal nether mary ner be maried, 36 for they can dye nomore. For they are like vnto the angels, and are the children of God, in so moch as they are children of the resurreccion.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the second took her to wife,.... As he was obliged by the above law, or pluck off the shoe:

and he died childless: as his eldest brother before him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this explained in the Matthew 22:15-33 notes, and Mark 12:13-27 notes.


 
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