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Ruth 1:20-22
Good News Translation
Ruth 1:20-22
Good News Translation
20 “Don't call me Naomi,” she answered; “call me Marah,[a] because Almighty God has made my life bitter. 21 When I left here, I had plenty, but the Lord has brought me back without a thing. Why call me Naomi when the Lord Almighty has condemned me and sent me trouble?”
22 This, then, was how Naomi came back from Moab with Ruth, her Moabite daughter-in-law. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the barley harvest was just beginning.
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- Ruth 1:20 In Hebrew Naomi means “pleasant” and Marah means “bitter.”
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