Ruth 1:7
5 both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
9 May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
- KJV
- Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
- WEB
- She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
- ASV
- And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
- DARBY
- Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
- BLB
- And she went out from the place where she was there, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went in the way to return to the land of Judah.
- ÅB
- Hun dro bort fra det sted hvor hun hadde vært, og begge hennes sønnekoner var med henne. Mens de nå gikk fram etter veien for å vende tilbake til Juda land,
- OTB
- Hun dro fra stedet hvor hun hadde bodd, med sine to svigerdøtre, og la ut på veien for å vende tilbake til Juda land.
- B1930
- Hun drog bort fra det sted hvor hun hadde vært, og begge hennes sønnekoner var med henne. Mens de nu gikk frem efter veien for å vende tilbake til Juda land,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 8:3
At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.
Read in contextRuth 1:14
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
Read in contextExodus 18:27
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.
Read in contextRuth 1:10
and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
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