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20 Naomi answered the people, “Don’t call me Naomi.[a] Call me Mara,[b] because the Almighty has made my life very sad. 21 When I left, I had all I wanted, but now, the Lord has brought me home with nothing. Why should you call me Naomi when the Lord has spoken against me and the Almighty has given me so much trouble?”

22 So Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabite, returned from Moab and arrived at Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20 Naomi This name means “happy” or “pleasant.”
  2. 1:20 Mara This name means “bitter” or “sad.”

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