If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 25 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The Sadducees cite 'Moses wrote to us' the levirate law: if a man dies childless his brother must take the wife and raise up offspring for the brother. This is a near-verbatim paraphrase of the Deuteronomic statute, high volume, and load-bearing for the whole dispute.
High confidenceThe Sadducees cite the levirate law almost verbatim: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife and no child, his brother should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.' Mark frames it as 'Moses wrote to us,' a formal scriptural citation that sets up the resurrection test case.
High confidence