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Shall marry (epigambreusei). The Sadducees were “aiming at amusement rather than deadly mischief” (Bruce). It was probably an old conundrum that they had used to the discomfiture of the Pharisees. This passage is quoted from Deu 25:5, Deu 25:6. The word appears here only in the N.T. and elsewhere only in the lxx. It is used of any connected by marriage as in Gen 34:9; 1Sa 18:22. But in Gen 38:8 and Deu 25:5 it is used specifically of one marrying his brother’s widow.