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25 For when these seven brothers and the woman rise from the dead, they won’t be married—they will be like the angels.

26 “But now as to whether there will be a resurrection—have you never read in the book of Exodus about Moses and the burning bush? God said to Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and I am the God of Isaac, and I am the God of Jacob.’

27 “God was telling Moses that these men, though dead for hundreds of years,[a] were still very much alive, for he would not have said, ‘I am the God’ of those who don’t exist! You have made a serious error.”

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  1. Mark 12:27 though dead for hundreds of years, implied.

25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.(A) 26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[a]?(B) 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

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  1. Mark 12:26 Exodus 3:6