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Ruth 1:8-15
8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, �Go back, each of you, to your mother�s home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me. 9 May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.�
Then she kissed them and they wept aloud 10 and said to her, �We will go back with you to your people.� 11 But Naomi said, �Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 12 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me�even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons� 13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD�s hand has gone out against me!� 14 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.
15 �Look,� said Naomi, �your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.� (Ruth 1:8-15)
The New International Version, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House) 1984.
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