Luke 20:29
There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
Luke 20:29 in other translations
| BSB | Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife, but died childless. |
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| WEB | There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. |
| ASV | There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless; |
| YLT | ‘There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless, |
| DARBY | There were then seven brethren: and the first, having taken a wife, died childless; |
| BBE | Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children; |
| Webster | There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children. |
What does Luke 20:29 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 20:27-34
27-34. no resurrection--"nor angel nor spirit" (Ac 23:8); the materialists of the day.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 20:27-38
It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that…
Luke 20:29 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 20:29
- Jeremiah 22:30
Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more 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.
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Context
- Luke 20:28
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.
- Luke 20:29
There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
- Luke 20:30
And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
Luke 20:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Fueron, pues, siete hermanos: y el primero tomó mujer, y murió sin hijos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il y avait donc sept frères; et le premier, ayant pris une femme, mourut sans enfants; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Es waren nun sieben Brüder. Und der erste nahm ein Weib und starb kinderlos; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Septem ergo fratres erant: et primus accepit uxorem, et mortuus est sine filiis. |