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May the Lord grant each of you security in your new[a] husbands’ households.” Then she kissed them good-bye,[b] and they cried loudly.

10 They both replied to her, “No! We’ll go back with you to your people.”

11 But Naomi responded, “Go back, my daughters. Why go with me? Are there still sons to be born to me[c] as future husbands for you?

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:9 The Heb. lacks new
  2. Ruth 1:9 The Heb. lacks good-bye
  3. Ruth 1:11 Lit. sons in my womb

May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest(A) in the home of another husband.”

Then she kissed(B) them goodbye and they wept aloud(C) 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?(D)

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