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20 And she said unto them, Call me not [a]Naomi, call me [b]Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:20 That is, Pleasant.
  2. Ruth 1:20 That is, Bitter.