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25 When people rise from the dead, they will not marry, nor will they be given to someone to marry. They will be like the angels in heaven. 26 Surely you have read what God said about people rising from the dead. In the book in which Moses wrote about the burning bush,[a] it says that God told Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’[b] 27 God is the God of the living, not the dead. You Sadducees are wrong!”

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Footnotes

  1. 12:26 burning bush Read Exodus 3:1–12 in the Old Testament.
  2. 12:26 ‘I am . . . Jacob.’ Quotation from Exodus 3:6.

25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

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