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Ruth Is Determined to Go with Naomi

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that [a]Yahweh had (A)visited His people to (B)give them [b]food. So she went forth from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. (C)May Yahweh [c]show lovingkindness with you as you have [d]shown with the dead and with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:6 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
  2. Ruth 1:6 Lit bread, cf. Bethlehem (house of bread), Ruth 1:19
  3. Ruth 1:8 Lit do, cf. 1:17; 2:11, 19
  4. Ruth 1:8 Lit done, cf. 1:17; 2:11, 19