12 Turn again my daughters: go your way: for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, and if I had an husband this night: yea, and if I had borne sons,

13 Would ye tarry for them, till they were of age? would ye be deferred for them from taking of husbands? nay my daughters: for it grieveth me [a]much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

14 Then they lift up their voice and wept again, and Orpah [b]kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth abode still with her.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:13 Or, more than you.
  2. Ruth 1:14 When she took leave and departed.

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